Smoke-free Ordinance

The smoke-free ordinance is an initiative that protects the public from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke. In this way, the smoke-free ordinance also has initiatives that discourage smoking and encourage smokers to quit. Importantly, the study of disease and injury in the society find out that the secondary smoke affects the non-smokers in an indirect way (Szklo & Nieto, 2012). In addition, the epidemiologists are concerned with the diseases that are caused by secondary smoking. Also, rates of infections caused by secondary smoking have helped estimate the future harm of secondary smoke. Importantly, the research of the harms of smoking shows that nonsmokers that are exposed to smokers suffer almost the same fate as the direct smokers (Szklo & Nieto, 2012). In this way, the smoke-free ordinance has come up with initiatives that will help trigger initiatives to reduce the secondary smoking effects (Szklo & Nieto, 2012). In this way, construction of smoking zones reduces the harm of smoking to the nonsmokers and alienate the public from secondary smoke.

Epidemiology has dedicated resources to the smoke-free ordinance to prevent more smoke related infections. Importantly, the increased number of people that are exposed to the risk of smoking increases the incident rates (Szklo & Nieto, 2012). Luckily, through epidemiological studies, the incident rate have been reduced through the banning of public smoking in many countries. Also, life expectancy would be raised in the success of the smoke-free ordinance (Szklo & Nieto, 2012). The smoke-free ordinance has two main objectives, firstly, it is concerned with the separation of smokers and non-smokers in the society. I this way the secondary smoking effects would be reduced. Secondly, the initiative discourages smoking and sensitizes the public of its negative health implications.