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The World Health Organisation has called for stringent regulations on smoking in public places . Given the scale of danger awaiting the community from smokers, all member countries should ban smoking at indoor workplaces and in public buildings.

'The evidence is clear. There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke,' said Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization. China has come in for special mention. It needs comprehensive laws to reduce the number of smokers or the habit could end up killing 2.2 million Chinese a year by 2020, WHOs representative for the country Henk Bekedam said.

Tobacco use is the worlds leading cause of preventable death, accounting for 10 percent of adult fatalities, according to WHO. It is responsible for 5.4 million deaths each year, a figure that is expected to rise to 8.3 million by 2030, the agency says. Increasing numbers of nonsmokers will also die unless governments take action, WHO said in its 50-page report. It said governments of both rich and poor countries should declare all public indoor places smoke-free, by passing laws and actively enforcing measures to ensure that 'everyone has a right to breathe clean air, free from tobacco smoke.'

At least 200,000 workers die each year because of exposure to smoke at their offices and factories, according to the U.N. labor agency. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about 3,000 deaths from lung cancer each year occur among nonsmoking Americans. 'This is not about shaming the smoker. This is not even about banning smoking,' said Dr. Armando Peruga, who heads WHOs anti-tobacco campaign. 'This is about society taking decisions about where to smoke and where not to smoke.'

He cited Ireland and Uruguay as governments that have successfully tackled smoking by creating and enforcing smoke-free environments. Legislation of the kind has proved popular among both smokers and no
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