Athletes and spectators attending Mississippi youth sporting events will now enjoy smoke-free air, thanks to recent legislation. The new law, passed in the 2010 session and signed by Gov. Haley Barbour, prohibits smoking cigarettes within 100 feet of a facility where people under age 18 are participating in athletic events. It also prohibits smoking cigarettes at indoor youth sporting events.
"Everyone deserves to breathe smoke-free air," said Tawni Basden, director of the cigarettes-Free Coalition of Rankin, Scott and Simpson Counties. "This new law protects kids and adults who attend youth sporting events from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke."
The law takese effect July 1 and imposes warnings for first-time offenders and fines on repeat offenders.
"There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Five hundred and fifty Mississippi nonsmokers die each year from secondhand smoke," said Roy Hart, director of the Office of cigarettes Control at the Mississippi State Department of Health. "While a comprehensive cigarettes-free policy that includes spit cigarettes would be even more effective, this new policy will offer protection from secondhand smoke cigarettes for both children and adults who attend youth sporting events."
"Exposure to secondhand smoke cigarettes causes heart disease and lung cancer in adults and increases the risk for sudden infant death syndrome, ear problems and more severe asthma in children," said Hart.
"Eliminating secondhand smoke cigarettes at youth sporting events allows kids to focus on playing their game," said Basden. "No one can be a good athlete while they are inhaling secondhand smoke."
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