How to Use anti-smoking in a Sentence

anti-smoking

adjective
  • 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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