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Stopping cigarette smoking has become a big problem for all governments. In democratic countries, the economic strength of the tobacco industry is such great that measures taken by governments to protect the rights of non-smokers cannot be applied efficiently.(1)____(2)____ In some undemocratic countries, on the other hand, governments cannot be trusted and they lack the motivation to deal with the problem. However under any political system, social conditioning and chemical habit make banning tobacco a formidable task and one that would take a long time.(3)____(4)____
Yet, current information campaigns are failing as worldwide
use increases faster than the population. Totally banning cigarette smoking so far as has been unsuccessful in all countries.(5)____ An alternative approach includes neither the prohibition of smoking in the workplace and public buildings or the strict limitation of smoking to specific areas.(6)____(7)____ This movement may be the greatest success of the information campaign against tobacco. Its leaders insist that despite the continued sale, advertising, and use of tobacco, non-smokers have every right to be exposed to the carcinogens, carbon monoxide, and irritants in tobacco smoke.(8)____
Such a campaign can have three important effects. First of all, by banning the use of tobacco from places that non-smokers would be exposed, thousands of lives may be saved. Second, by forcing smokers to give up their habit while in the presence of non-smokers will provide them with an added force to quit.(9)____(10)____ And third, by stigmatizing tobacco use as dangerous and antisocial, the campaign for non-smokers' rights can accomplish a goal of all anti-smoking information campaigns: to make smoking socially unattractive.
