Smoking ban for all of Kansas decided

Kansas is 30 smoke-free state in the U.S.

After years of resistance, and many discussions with farmers and smokers or of friendly organizations, the Governor of Kansas, Mark Parkinson, signed the law last Friday for a first general government smoking ban in Kansas.

In Kansas, there were already restrictions on smoking, but only in some cities, these regulations are now aligned with the new smoking ban. The law on 1 Come into force in July 2010, making Kansas 30 U.S. State in which Smoking is prohibited.

Affected by the ban are restaurants, bars, office buildings and other public facilities. The only exceptions are private clubs (such as for war veterans), special smoking rooms in hotels and public game rooms.

Anti-tobacco groups and health adviser asked for years for a total ban on smoking state, however, been met with massive resistance by farmers who - fearing loss of revenue - and rightly so, as examples from other countries and U.S. states show. Despite all of the draft law was submitted to the smoking ban last month.

The Democratic politicians Parkinson sees his consent to the new law as "the happiest moment in his career as governor." "Today we have proved that the system works, Kansas has won, the representatives of" special interests "have lost and Kansas gets the fresh air that it deserves," he announced, pointing out that he has the above-mentioned exemptions to later opportunity will pick up again.

According to Parkinson, the law was the result of collaboration between the House and Senate as well as numerous doctors, nurses and health professionals. In Kansas you wait way to justify a smoking ban, with numbers of health professionals to: supposedly there die every year 4,000 people from diseases associated with smoking. Of which 300 deaths were caused by secondhand smoke.

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