100% Smoke Free Public Places by Removing Designated Smoking Area
A media campaign focusing on the necessity of ensuring 100% smoke free public places is launched this week to support the move to amend the tobacco control law. The campaign announcement that was produced with support from Vital strategies will run on BTV for six weeks funded by the government. The 30-second video and sub-sequent materials shows how smoking endangers the health of non-smokers including kids and women in facilities where there is a smoking zone provision.
Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemical compounds, 250 of them are dangerous and 70 of them are carcinogens, which cause cancer in human bodies. Secondhand smoke causes to increase risks of serious diseases including heart attack, stroke, chronic lung diseases like Emphysema and Asthma, diabetics etc. Secondhand...