New York Smoking decade significant effect

 New York State, according to the implementation of the indoor smoking ban in its fifth decade this year, and now a smoky restaurant, office, or even smoke Chongbi bars, buses, trains, have almost become a historical lens. Smoking supporters claimed that the ban has saved countless lives, as opposed to believe that restaurants, bars and other concerns will thus losing customers, has vanished.

The state legislature indoor clean air laws, changed the lives of New Yorkers. The smoking ban be required to the outside, so that non-smokers in the workplace every day to avoid inhaling secondhand smoke.

American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network vice president Horace said: “In 2002, the New York bar, restaurant simply carcinogen greenhouse, for in those workplaces employees to work eight hours a day, this is extremely dangerous environment . “Horace noted that from 1999 to 2009 decade, the New York-smokers from 22% to 17%, prospective smokers from 54% to 65%.

However, the Empire State Restaurant Pub Association chief executive Whistler noted that the smoking ban came into effect, does make some people unemployed, out of business, the Association and was a restaurant and bar industry sued the New York state capital. However, this situation did not last long. In the smoking ban implemented 18 months later, due to smoking customers to stay at home, or to permit smoking in private clubs and fraternities, making some of the industry’s business has plummeted, leading to restaurants, bars and some close, some layoffs.

Whistler said, when the restaurant business fell 3% to 4%, the bar business declined 18%, the Empire State Restaurant tavern lost 20% of members of the Association. Now, unless faced with smoking permitted private clubs and bars competition, otherwise this industry rarely complain. These industry business quickly returned to normal, but it was not as anti-smokers expected business to get better.

New York State Department of Health will be held next week (7.28-8.3) released the latest report of the Act affect, and on July 24 that is the indoor smoking ban, a fine of $ 1,000 offenders decree implementing the tenth anniversary of the date.

2006 New York published a study on indoor air purification method of health and economic impact report found that in 2005, 80% of New York citizens to support the law, including one third to one half of the smokers. But the Health Department cited academic report that there is no positive impact on indoor smoking law. The Health Department poll found that due to the implementation of the Act, New Yorkers on restaurants and bars is only slightly more frequently so few.

Horace Cancer Society, said there are still many efforts to be carried out, at present there are 25,000 New York die from smoking each year, and predict the association, now 18 years old 389,000 children and adolescents will be earlier due to smoking deaths.

Comments:

With the improvement of people’s health awareness and public health concerns, smoking, governments have increasingly become a trend in the development of health services where governments weigh the interests of all parties in the premise, the implementation of anti-smoking initiatives are numerous, but Overall, the effect is most unsatisfactory. However, non-smoking New York gave us the following decade the effectiveness of the revelation: First, “a thousand miles begins with a single step” and then complex and difficult matter, as long as the courageous first step, not far from success, Smoking First, from the indoor smoking ban began, 10 years, New York 5% decrease in the number of smokers, indoor public places purify the environment; Second, look to the long-term, faith must be firm. Facts have proved that the initial ban on the part of the industry’s business against only temporary, not because of industry opposition and obstruction shaken; Third, the success of perseverance, blacksmith must still hot. New York decades to strictly enforce the smoking ban, is the key to the initial success, to the smoking ban to go further on the road, the need to build on the progress win is.