Tourists, who intend to visit the United States of America, need to know that the country continues to restrict the rights of smokers. New penalties and restrictions are introduced for those who continue to persist in smoking.
Thus, the mayor of New York decided to ban smoking in the city streets, in the parks and on the beaches. Similar bans are imposed for the sake of healthy tourists and citizens to walk safely without the risk of inhaling tobacco smoke. In addition, it will protect children from the ugly sight of smoking adults. It is still unknown when the new law will come into force reports the Associated Press.
There are about 1700 parks and recreation areas in New York, in addition, the city owes 14 miles of beaches. Mayor of New York advocates for a healthy lifestyle a long time. Bloomberg quitted smoking more than 30 years ago and seeks to wean all citizens from the habit. During his first term as mayor of New York smoking was banned in city bars and restaurants.
A new tough anti-smoking law has been signed in the U.S recently, just reminding. It gave the Federal Office for the Food and Drug Administration new powers that allow authorities to more strictly control the production and distribution of tobacco products.
According to official statistics, every fifth resident of the United States is a smoker. At the same time about 440 thousand people die in the country each year from illnesses related to smoking. According to the budget committee of Congress, the new laws will help reduce the number of juvenile smokers by 11%, and adults – at 2%. However, to feel the results from the introduction of new measures could be no earlier than ten years.
to whom it may concern, I am a smoker and I try not to smoke around people who do not smoke but I disagree with the smoking ban on the streets, so many people complain about smoking kills we choose to smoke, there are a lot of laws for smoking……… the taxes always going up!!!!!! my complaint is what about alcohol that is a big killer people choose to drink and drive they kill innocent people and nothing is done the prices don’t go up, taxes don’t go up laws and rules don’t change and people just seem to complain about us smokers killing them, my son was killed by a drunk driver like so many others WHAT IS BEING DONE ABOUT THAT FOR THAT TO CHANGE.