THE OPINION OF CLUJ CITIZENS REGARDING THE SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES
Abstract
In 2009 the European Council adopted a Recommendation on Smoke-free Environments. The European Recommendation called on member states to introduce specific smoke-free legislative measures until November 2012. Romania is one of the few European states where smoking is still allowed in closed public spaces. The country did not adopt the recommendations of the European Union Council, according to which all the member states should enforce measures to protect the citizens against exposure to tobacco smoke. The majority of the European Union countries have comprehensive smoke-free laws in place. Studies on the health effects of smoke-free legislation indicate that positive impacts appear very quickly after starting to implement smoke free legislation. During January 2013, it was launched a civic initiative on the adoption by Cluj-Napoca the European recommendations about banning smoking in some public places. The purpose of this study was to find out the opinion of the inhabitants of Cluj-Napoca city on smoking and the possible ban on smoking in enclosed public places within the city. This study, the first in the city about this subject, uses the method of sociological research based on a questionnaire survey, using a representative sample of the city population. The majority of the subjects support the initiative of banning smoking in enclosed public places in Cluj-Napoca, and consider that this measure must be extended nationwide.The papers published in the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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