Abstract
Higher Learning Institutions Students’ Perspective on Public Smoking Ban Legislation
Highlights
The legislation of banning smoking in public can help in improving the health of smokers’
Impact of Public Smoking Based on the online survey given by Malaysia’s New Straits Times newspaper, there are 80% of more than 25,000 respondents who thought that the policy of requiring smokers in Malaysia to light up at least three metres away from the open-air eateries should go even further, supporting that hotels and launderettes should be listed as smoke-free zones
65.5% respondents agree that the new legislation should be enough to reduce this smoking cultured and 13% disagree with the mean of 3.72. 62.6% of respondents support that the banning of smoking in public can reduce the number of smokers and 23,4% did not agree and the mean for this is 3.60
Summary
The legislation of banning smoking in public can help in improving the health of smokers’. Impact of Public Smoking Based on the online survey given by Malaysia’s New Straits Times newspaper, there are 80% of more than 25,000 respondents who thought that the policy of requiring smokers in Malaysia to light up at least three metres away from the open-air eateries should go even further, supporting that hotels and launderettes should be listed as smoke-free zones. Abdul Rahman (2019) said that the policy is an effort to protect the masses from the secondhand smoke in public areas He stated that the smokers seeked help to quit smoking by going through some therapies and health-care consultations.
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