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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(8):585-586; doi:10.1093/jnci/djk171
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Public Support for Smoking Bans Diffusing to Developing Countries

Charlie Schmidt

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Back in 2004, Massachusetts policy makers escalated their efforts to vaccinate the state's population against cancer—not with a pill or an injection but with a policy to ban smoking in all workplaces, including restaurants and bars.

Declines in secondhand smoke exposure from that effort—led by Howard Koh, M.D., a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the state's health commissioner until 2003, and Greg Connolly, D.M.D., who directed the Massachusetts tobacco control program until he also joined the Harvard faculty in 2004—will probably boost the tobacco control program's ability to limit cancer deaths in the long run, Koh says. Up to 3,400 people die from lung cancer induced by secondhand smoke in the United States each year.

Workplace smoking bans have also begun to appear throughout the world, which suggests that international efforts to pass clean . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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