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WELCH: Smoking law side effects 

Everywhere you go in Hungary there are people smoking, so how will the new smoking law implemented this month ever be upheld? More to the point, is this a law the people support? . . Smoking is very much a part of the Hungarian lifestyle and for a law to alter it, legislation should be more comprehensive. Higher taxes on tobacco should have been imposed, education in schools should be mandatory and media campaigns should be more proactive.

At present, such laws do not threaten the financial position of tobacco companies. It is their product that the law is trying to curb, so it should do just that. If police and security guards still smoke on duty, it is unlikely the general public will take the law seriously. After all, if you can’t follow the example of those who are supposed to uphold the law, whose can you follow?

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