Abstract
Amajor change has occurred in the way governments in the United States have sought to deal with the problem of passive smoking. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, governments tended to require the provision of designated smoking areas as the primary means of controlling exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS). The public spaces typically covered by this first phase of smoking control laws were relatively noncontroversial spaces such as hospitals, schools, elevators, and public transportation. From the mid-1990s onward, however, governments have proved increasingly willing to prohibit rather than restrict public smoking. An expansion of the range of public spaces covered by this second phase of smoking control laws has also been apparent. A greater readiness to ban smoking in controversial spaces such as private workplaces, restaurants, and bars has been evident.
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Bailey, C.J. (2008). Clearing the Air: The New Politics of Public Smoking. In: Morgan, I.W., Davies, P.J. (eds) The Federal Nation. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617254_12
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