March 29 marked the 10 years anniversary of a workplace smoking ban in Ireland, extending to pubs and restaurants. Ireland was the first country worldwide to enact such a sweeping ban. The sweeping ban has spawned copycat law across the globe.

Some people think it as success, because smoking ban is saving lives and improving our overall health as a nation. In fact, the smoking prevalence rate has decreased more than 7% since the launch of the ban.

But other people think it as the opposite effect.  They say the ban has helped smoking more, that’s because everyone was smoking outside, you’d take one. The ban make people smoking outside, not inside. So, there are more chance to see people smoking outside.

In this article, one of the way to stop people smoking is to make smoking illegal, punishable by a fine of up to 3,000euros, or about$4,200.

I think there are two other ways for it, tax and package.

First, raising tax on a cigarette is effective. It is more effective than a fine to collect people’s money and treat justly. Smoking outside is not necessary punished by police, so the lucky is safe!

Second, packages on cigarette cases are also important. In Japan, many announces is written on them, for example risk for lung cancer and several bad effects for our health.  This doesn’t make people buy a lot of cigarettes.

There are many ways to prevent people from smoking too much.