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The History of Smoking Bans |
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By Jon Tipping
 By the late 1600s, cities began banning smoking. These cities included those in Europe and Austria. Bans established in Berlin (1723), Konigsberg (1742), and Stettin (1744) were afterward repealed during the 1848 revolutions.
In 1876, New Zealand become home to the earliest building on Earth to boast a no-smoking policy. The Old Government Building situated in Wellington outlawed smoking, not out of concern for the healthiness of the general public, but rather to cut back the risk of fire. The building is the worlds second biggest made of timber.
Unexpectedly, Adolf Hitler had his hand in the first trendy national tobacco ban. Hitlers Nazi Party prohibited tobacco use in German post offices, universities, Nazi offices, and military hospitals. The regulation was founded in 1941 primarily based on info provided by the Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research.
As the 20th Century came to a conclusion, researchers began to spot the risks of second hand smoke and tobacco use. In reply, the tobacco business began airing courtesy awareness campaigns to maintain its buyers. In the U.S., states began to pass laws that provided |
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