How are tobacco control laws changing American culture?

How are tobacco control laws changing American culture?

Linda Hyder Ferry (Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: How has the tobacco industry influenced American culture?; How did the 1964 US Surgeon General's report impact the tobacco industry?; How are tobacco control laws changing American culture? and more...

In most states, following the 1989 passage of Prop 99 in the state of California legislation that influences clean indoor air, prevention of second-hand smoke in workplaces, prevention of exposure to children, increasing taxation on cigarettes, and anti-tobacco campaigns on TV, radio, newspaper print in a state, and provision of smoking cessation services have really started in California and going with multiple states who have followed this model have really got the attention of the population and begun a rapid decline in smoking in those states. States that have not had anti-smoking legislation have not seen their smoking rates fall. In fact, in many of those states the smoking rate has continued to rise.