Health

No smoking in bars
by Claudia Sonea

There is a trend in believing that smoking can be prevented if you succeed to stop teens from ever getting the bad habit. As a proof it is enough to read the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine for the Massachusetts study addressing the effects of smoking bans in public places. The study was led by Dr. Michael Siegel, of Boston University School of Public Health, who gave even a psychological approach. 2,791 children between ages 12 and 17 from all over Massachusetts states were under surveillance for four years and the conclusion was that 9 percent become regular smokers. Obviously the rate was higher in towns were smoking wasn’t banned from public places- since the study begun cities and towns made laws banning smoking in workplaces, bars or restaurants due to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. Many of the reasons were smoking parents or friends, but strong bans decreased with 40 percent the misfortune of becoming smoker. In 2004 in Massachusetts there was instated a smoking ban that led to a 3 percent decline in high school smoking rates. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Yet, restaurant owners did not think about children health and fearing that they might lose customers (therefore money) they opposed the banning. The good news is that no lesser than 23 states don’t allow smoking in public places. This is what the study denounces and many are against it and many support it. Now, thinking of the future of your children and their health, would you still indulge such a bad habit?

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_he_me/teen_smoking_restaurants;_ylt=AmrSHCCDZXrnOQwS_ptUlzSs0NUE

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