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The United States' experience with such limited measures as provided by the new Russian law supports the authors' reasonable fear that the new Russian law will not work.
In U.S. experience, limited bans, focusing on protecting teens, advertising restrictions, and similar limited approaches, typically have failed. There is little meaningful enforcement; cigarettes are widely available to all; 'smoking' zones proliferate.
Agreeing That The New Russian Law Will Likely Not Work
In U.S. experience, limited bans, focusing on protecting teens, advertising restrictions, and similar limited approaches, typically have failed. There is little meaningful enforcement; cigarettes are widely available to all; 'smoking' zones proliferate.
Better, more meaningful, solutions are to
This is to encourage Russia to take these three full-solution-type approaches, as distinct from limited actions having foreseeably limited results.
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