{"id":557,"date":"2011-04-21T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2014-01-14T21:02:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T21:02:45","slug":"cdc-predicts-every-state-will-have-a-smoking-bans-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"CDC predicts every state will have a smoking bans by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mizoram-no-smoking\"<\/a><\/p>\n

First of all, the headline is a little misleading.<\/a> It says “Every state will ban smoking.” They aren’t banning smoking, they’re just banning it in bars and restaurants.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to revisit this in 9 years to see if the CDC is right. It’s not a particularly bold prediction, since there are only 12 states left that *don’t* have smoking bans. The article says seven — Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Wyoming, South Carolina — but that’s incorrect. They forgot to mention Alaska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Alabama and North Dakota. It’s 12 states that do not *effectively* have smoking bans in either bars or restaurants.<\/p>\n

What’s interesting is, in most of these states, the major cities all have smoking bans — Houston, Dallas, Austin, El Paso, Charleston, Louisville, Lexington, Indianapolis, Casper, Cheyenne, Kansas City, St. Louis and now Bismarck<\/a> (Bismarck voters just approved a smokefree law — by a HUGE margin — about 60-40 percent). So, even though there are no statewide bans in these states, there really aren’t that many places in those states where you can still light up in a bar or a restaurant.<\/p>\n

By coincidence, most of these states have high smoking rates and high lung cancer rates.<\/p>\n

The article correctly states that smoking bans do drive down smoking rates and that hospital admissions for heart disease among *non-smokers* have consistently declined in communities that have smoking bans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all, the headline is a little misleading. It says “Every state will ban smoking.” They aren’t banning smoking, they’re just banning it in bars and restaurants. It will be interesting to revisit this in 9 years to see if the CDC is right. 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