Smokefree legislation encourages people to quit smoking
16 January 2007
Two months
after it went into effect, the smokefree legislation in Honolulu has
lead to a surge of people considering giving up the habit, according to
health and business officials. Calls to the state's stop-smoking hot
line shot up dramatically in December, the month after the law went
into effect, said Deborah Zysman, director of the Coalition for a
Tobacco-Free Hawai'i. The group's stop-smoking hot line received 1,047
inquiries in December, a fourfold increase over October, Zysman said.
Originally reported in the Honolulu Advertiser
