How to Promote a City Wide Smoking Ban
Every year, communities ban smokers from lighting up inside bars, restaurants and other businesses. With each proposed ban, opposition gathers to protest what it sees as an intrusion on basic rights and a limit on profits. To win support, you must actively promote the benefits of a cigarette ban.
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Learn as much as you can about the smoking ban before you start promoting it. You can expect a lot of questions from people and you need to have the answers. You can't promote something that you're not fully educated about.
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Gather statistics about the harmful effects of smoking. Find out how other smoking bans have affected cities similar to yours.
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Look for information about the effect on local businesses, like bars and restaurants. A decrease in business is usually a top concern when communities try to enact a smoking ban.
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Discuss the benefits of a city wide smoking ban with your friends and neighbors. Garner support from others.
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Form a grassroots group in favor of the smoking ban. Set up regular meetings where you'll review the information you've gathered about smoking bans.
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Express your feelings on the smoking ban to various meetings in your community. Check with city council to see when it's on the agenda to discuss. Write down your name to speak during the public session.
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Visit local businesses and community groups. Promote the smoking ban with hard facts and statistics. Get more people on your side.
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cragli
Apr 26, 2009
All cities and towns should have a smoking ban, considering all the health problems it causes. Can't go anywhere without smoke in your face all the time. People smoking outside every store and restaurant and in their cars making the smoke blow into your car windows or for the people on bicycles who must sit at a red light next to a car with smokers inside and also they blow their smoke out inside the restaurants and stores and on buses and they stand in the doorways and all the smoke blows into the store or restaurant anyway as if they were actually inside smoking so just making them stay outside is not enough. We can't even go outside to go anywhere because of neighbors who smoke outside their homes and it all blows over into our yard and so we are trapped indoors to avoid the smoke. It stinks so bad and is also very harmful to health and impossible to avoid it so they need to ban it ev
