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The Tobacco Control Act of 1990 which was enacted by the Federal Government during the tenure of Professor Ransome Kuti as the Minister of Health, served as the foundation utilized by the panel to steamroll the attempts to nail defaulters of the ban. The FCT Administration also effectively used the “Public Health Act” to prosecute offenders in an attempt to elicit the support of residents in making the city a world class and inclusive city, as envisaged by successive administrations. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
However, two years down the line, the tempo appears to have thawed considerably,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as it appears that smokers are now back fully in public glare, even as the authorities seem at a loss on what to do to enforce the ban. Manager of Aneio hotels and gardens, Utako, Monday Nwabuene ascribes the lull in enforcement to lack of proper orientation by the authorities. He says that the government is equally not sincere about enforcing the ban,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], going by its ill preparedness to marshal the necessary resources to give credence to the ban, via public education and punitive measures for defaulters.
On the other hand however, he adds that smoking cannot be totally eradicated in places like bars and gardens, where smoking is akin to patronage. “Smoking cannot be banned in places like bars. If it is enforced, then patronage may be affected. As you well know smoking and drinking go hand in hand, you cannot stop people from smoking even if you do not sell. You stand to lose customers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and they are the live wire of business, ask any manager of places like bars, gardens and parks. Furthermore, the government has not spelt out clearly for the purpose of mass enlightenment, what it specifies as ‘public places.’ Many people do not know that in the first place,” he notes.
These statistics are based on responses to the question “Do you smoke?” asked of more than 350,000 Americans,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], aged 18 and older, in 2009 as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. This large aggregate sample size provides a more detailed portrait of the relationship between smoking and age than is usually available from the government or from other sources. The general conclusion that smoking is less prevalent among older Americans has been well-established.
Gallup data, however,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], demonstrate that this drop in smoking is not uniformly lower as age increases, but it is a pattern that has specific variations across the age spectrum. For Gallup Daily tracking, Gallup interviews approximately 1,000 national adults, aged 18 and older,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], each day. The Gallup smoking results are based on the aggregated sample of 353,849 national adults,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], aged 18 and older, interviewed in 2009. For results based on the total sample of national adults,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage points. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.