Peru National Perspective of Smoking

In Peru, on the 30 of March of 2010 Peru’s congress approved the law of banning smoking in public places. This included workshops, hotels, restaurants, casinos, etc. Businesses owners will be given a year for their businesses to be adapted to this new law. This law was done in favour of the well-being of Peruvians health. The law will also require putting warning signs for consumers on both sides. This law was approved by 60 votes in favour, 4 votes against and 13 blank votes. It already have a law which indicate public spaces to have smoking areas but now smoking areas won’t exist anymore. But there isn’t any law in here that evade people from smoking in their properties or on open spaces, in fact I don’t know of any country that does.


I think many of the warnings doesn’t affect the decision of the smokers as they already have the addiction in their system, what really is decreasing the number of smokers are the laws that are making it more and more difficult to smoke like the law of not smoking in any public place or the one that avoid people from buying single cigarettes.

Personal Perspective

On my opinion smoking shouldn’t be banned as it will be a too extreme way of dealing with the smoking situation. I think it will bring more problems than solutions and instead of improving the situation of this problem it would just worsen it. I think that the solution to this problem would be to continue doing what governments have already been doing. And this is to reduce publicity on smoking, making cigarettes brands put warnings in their packages, making laws about public smoking, etc. In this way, the number of smokers will be reduced and reduced and someday there may be no smokers at all.

Possible course of action

A way to reduce the number of smokers in the future may be to keep implementing laws and keep restricting the use of cigarettes. In this way, the number of smokers will decrease slowly but efficiently because banning cigarettes may be a too extreme way of dealing with this situation. The number of smokers will decrease slowly but will decrease without having to imprison smokers as it will be if we ban smoking. This may be the only way of dealing with this theme because the course of action of banning smoking could bring more problems than solutions and the prohibition laws can seem like shortening the liberty of people.

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