endsmoke.com » display of tobacco http://www.endsmoke.com Are you FINALLY ready to stop smoking? Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:11:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Should the Smoking Ban Go Further? http://www.endsmoke.com/should-the-smoking-ban-go-further-71 http://www.endsmoke.com/should-the-smoking-ban-go-further-71#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:26:59 +0000 Alisha http://www.endsmoke.com/?p=71 We followed a lot of our European counterparts by banning smoking in public places, and the health benefits of this are obvious helping to prevent the issues associated with second hand smoke. But should we now take this further and follow our European counterparts example again by banning the display of tobacco in all our local shops and supermarkets.

Results from both Iceland and Canada suggest that this could have real benefits. Since introducing the ban, both countries have seen a drop in youth smoking rates.

Studies at the university of Stirling and research performed at the Centre for Behavioural Research also confirm this.

Obviously the results of any such ban in this country would take time to have any real effect, but if we are serious as a country about reducing the amount of young smokers and trying to combat the cancerous effects of smoking then this is surely the way to go. What do you think?

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