{"id":7943,"date":"2011-04-21T15:12:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:27","slug":"cdc-half-the-u-s-now-protected-by-comprehensive-smoke-free-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/04\/21\/cdc-half-the-u-s-now-protected-by-comprehensive-smoke-free-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Half the U.S. Now Protected by Comprehensive Smoke-Free Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6015a2.htm?s_cid=mm6015a2_w\">CDC analysis in <em>MMWR<\/em><\/a>, nearly half the U.S. population is now protected  from second-hand smoke by comprehensive laws that restrict smoking in three  venues (private sector worksites, restaurants, and bars). If the current  trend continues, all 50 states and the District of Columbia will be  smoke-free by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The first [statewide] law prohibiting indoor smoking was  passed in Delaware in 2002. Today, 26 states in the country have  comprehensive smoke-free laws. In addition, 10  states have laws that restrict smoking in one or two (but  not all three) venues, and eight states have less restrictive laws allowing smoking in  designated areas or areas with separate ventilation. Seven states have no  smoking restrictions. The south has lagged behind the rest of the  country in enacting smoke-free laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The progress made during the  past decade in enacting comprehensive state smoke-free laws is an  extraordinary public-health achievement,&#8221; write the CDC authors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecondhand  smoke is responsible for 46,000 heart disease deaths and 3,400 lung  cancer deaths among nonsmokers each year,\u201d said the CDC&#8217;s Ursula Bauer,  director of the CDC&#8217;s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and  Health Promotion, in a press release. \u201cCompletely prohibiting  smoking in all public places and workplaces is the only way to fully  protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7952\" title=\"SmokingTable2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/04\/SmokingTable2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"673\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a CDC analysis in MMWR, nearly half the U.S. population is now protected from second-hand smoke by comprehensive laws that restrict smoking in three venues (private sector worksites, restaurants, and bars). If the current trend continues, all 50 states and the District of Columbia will be smoke-free by 2020. The first [statewide] law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[701,811,402],"class_list":["post-7943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prevention","tag-cdc","tag-smoke-free-laws","tag-smoking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}