How to Use anti-smoking in a Sentence
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Australia has one of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the world.
— Reuters, NBC News, 2 May 2023 -
But anti-smoking groups fear many smokers won't understand that.
— Don Thompson, CBS News, 29 June 2023 -
Mexico earlier this year enacted one of the world's strictest anti-smoking laws with a ban on smoking in any public place.
— Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023 -
In many high-income countries (HICs), smoking rates are on the way down from previous highs, thanks in part to the adoption of anti-smoking policies such as plain packaging and high taxation.
— Richard Hodson, Scientific American, 13 June 2023 -
But this time, the anti-smoking movement had scientific — rather than moral — arguments.
— Jeffrey A. Singer, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024 -
Moreover, anti-smoking policies that once seemed unthinkable are now in place, from cigarette bans on planes and in public places to the dire warnings on cigarette packages.
— Charlotte Lytton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023 -
Now the effort to rein in social media may be adopting the same legal playbook that anti-smoking activists used in the 1990s to hold tobacco companies accountable.
— Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023 -
But those studies assumed smokers wouldn't have a high-nicotine alternative, anti-smoking groups and researchers said.
— Don Thompson, CBS News, 29 June 2023 -
The group also would like to see anti-smoking messaging before and after shows featuring such imagery, as well as a ratings system warning of smoking images.
— USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024 -
In low-income countries in Africa, however, even common anti-smoking measures such as raising taxes on cigarettes have proved difficult to implement, in part owing to the interference of tobacco companies.
— Richard Hodson, Scientific American, 20 June 2023 -
The announcement comes as the tobacco center is besieged by criticism from all sides — including lawmakers, anti-smoking advocates and tobacco companies.
— Matthew Perrone, ajc, 24 Feb. 2023 -
Information, not scare tactics French anti-smoking nonprofits have found success by offering young people information about the harmful environmental effects of the tobacco industry as a way to incite them to stop smoking – instead of scare tactics.
— Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
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