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The ban on smoking in offices, restaurants or other public places may not be able to make a smoker trying to stop the bad habit. But at least the ban could help smokers reduce smoking habit at home.
It was revealed from research conducted in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands. From the results of these studies found a significant proportion of smokers who started to reduce his smoking habit at home after the introduction of legislation to ban smoking in public
places.
Previously, some opponents of the ban on smoking in workplaces or public found the smoking ban law will increase the displacement of smoking from public places into the home, which could increase the danger to non-smokers, especially children and other passive smokers.
But Ute Mons of the German Cancer Research Center and the Unit of Cancer Prevention at the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Center for Tobacco Control in Heidelberg, said the findings actually found the opposite results.
"Instead, our findings suggest that non-smoking legislation may stimulate smokers to also set a total smoking ban in their homes," writes Ute Mons in the study, as reported by FoxNews.
Smoking is known to cause lung cancer that is often fatal and chronic respiratory disease. Smoking is also a major risk factor for heart disease, the number one killer in the world.
WHO warns that smoking will kill nearly 6 million people in 2011 including 600,000 non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke. Cigarettes are also expected to lead to an increase in annual deaths to 8 million by 2030.
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