Switzerland: Anti-smoking organizations for a complete ban on smoking

Smoke opponents want a complete ban on smoking in Switzerland

The newspaper "South Eastern Switzerland" reported some organizations require a people's initiative "to protect against passive smoking." The new Health Law of the Canton of St. Gallen them is too lax.

According to this law, the municipalities may decide in St. Gallen, whether in restaurants that have only one room, smoking is allowed or not. Bruno Eberle, Managing Director of the Lung Association of St. Gallen said, according to "South Eastern Switzerland", "This is arbitrary. The exceptions go much too far. "

To initiate the people's initiative, the Lung Association of Cancer League and the Medical Society of St. Gallen has joined forces to "file a people's initiative for a complete protection against passive smoking." This call for anti-smoking organizations that all public areas including restaurants, bars, discos or be completely smoke-free. Supposedly they wanted to protect, above all, the youth, as 70 percent of adolescents are Non smoking.

To make the initiative to come into existence, within five months must be collected 6,000 signatures. Then there is a referendum to decide where to St. Gallen whether they want this rigorous proposal a majority or not. If the initiative for lack of participation is not concluded, the proposed smoking ban, which the communities can be a game room, come into force later this year.

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