Wichita is deciding on the prolongation of smoking ban
Smoking ban is the phenomenon that embraced all the USA and almost all the EU states. There are states that have large experience in this field. Also, there are regions that still discuss about the borders of this veto.
For example, in Wichita the City Council discussed about enlarging of the smoking ban to city bars and restaurants, regarding Lawrence-style smoking ban. The Council converses between Lawrence total smoking ban and the restaurant-only ban, no smoking at any place of employment.
The final decisions for this issue will bring more illumination regarding the ban for smoking in restaurants and bars.
A recent done survey showed that 73 % of Wichitans agree with veto and will be happy to meet up such a change.
1,135 people were interviewed and only 12 % smoke, and only 15 % of them go to a bar at least three times a month.
According to survey presented by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2006, 20 % of Kansas smoke cigarettes.
The same survey confirmed that the restaurants will be visited by additional 18 % of those polled if there will be prohibited to smoke. Almost the same percentage will visit the bars if lightening up will be banned there.
“Most people realize tobacco use is the number one preventable cause of death,” said Cindy Claycomb, co-chair of the Tobacco Free Wichita Coalition. Secondhand smoke is the third most common cause of preventable death, she said. Claycomb added that annually in Wichita die 58 people from secondhand smoke.
Despite the fact that the restaurants or bars are equipped with ventilators and the smokers are separated from nonsmokers, these precautions don’t prevent from exposure of smokers to secondhand smoke.
“Public health should always trump economic interests,” Claycomb said.
