How to Use anti-smoking in a Sentence

anti-smoking

adjective
  • Australia has one of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the world.
    Reuters, NBC News, 2 May 2023
  • If passed, the bill will give Britain some of the toughest anti-smoking measures in the world.
    Sylvia Hui, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
  • But anti-smoking groups fear many smokers won't understand that.
    Don Thompson, CBS News, 29 June 2023
  • Then came the lawsuits, anti-smoking campaigns, bans and the rise of vaping.
    John Samuels, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Mexico earlier this year enacted one of the world's strictest anti-smoking laws with a ban on smoking in any public place.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The passage gives the United Kingdom one of the toughest anti-smoking measures in the world.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • But this time, the anti-smoking movement had scientific — rather than moral — arguments.
    Jeffrey A. Singer, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Georgia was one of 40 states that earned an F from the ALA for anti-smoking funding.
    Kristal Dixon, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Britain's tough anti-smoking tactics – indoor bans and sky-high taxes – are working well; smoking rates have plummeted to historic lows.
    The Week Uk, theweek, 7 Sep. 2024
  • But those studies assumed smokers wouldn't have a high-nicotine alternative, anti-smoking groups and researchers said.
    Don Thompson, CBS News, 29 June 2023
  • The move marks a significant expansion of France’s existing anti-smoking laws.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025
  • Moreover, anti-smoking policies that once seemed unthinkable are now in place, from cigarette bans on planes and in public places to the dire warnings on cigarette packages.
    Charlotte Lytton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Similar to anti-smoking campaigns, there have been efforts to regulate tanning beds after they were declared a carcinogen.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
  • The group also would like to see anti-smoking messaging before and after shows featuring such imagery, as well as a ratings system warning of smoking images.
    USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Higher taxes, legal action, and comprehensive anti-smoking campaigns did that.
    Simar Bajaj / Made By History, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Smoking rates here are lower than the national average, cigarette taxes are high and anti-smoking messages are everywhere.
    Kevin Bardosh, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Some anti-smoking advocates worry that these cuts will only exacerbate this trend, sending a message to young people that smoking isn't just cool, but also not that big of a deal for your health.
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • In the United States, anti-smoking campaigns have reduced the number of new cigarette users, but the effectiveness of these measures may be fading.
    Max Cunningham, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025
  • So, as tobacco companies filled the airways with advertisements, anti-smoking advocates received millions of dollars of free time to respond.
    Simar Bajaj / Made By History, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Now the effort to rein in social media may be adopting the same legal playbook that anti-smoking activists used in the 1990s to hold tobacco companies accountable.
    Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But between increasingly stiff anti-smoking legislation and very real declines in volumes for years, some investors have given up the industry—and Altria—for dead.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • Like most of society at the time, German soldiers continued to smoke excessively even though Hitler, a non-smoker, championed an anti-smoking campaign.
    Robert M. Ehrenreich, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The 1964 report also found a 70% higher mortality rate among smokers and helped launch a nationwide anti-smoking campaign.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In many high-income countries (HICs), smoking rates are on the way down from previous highs, thanks in part to the adoption of anti-smoking policies such as plain packaging and high taxation.
    Richard Hodson, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
  • Authorities are now hoping to cut down on smoking everywhere across the archipelago, with plans to set up anti-smoking clinics that will offer medication to help people quit tobacco products.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • After the delay was announced Friday afternoon, anti-smoking and health advocates began expressing their frustration.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The announcement comes as the tobacco center is besieged by criticism from all sides — including lawmakers, anti-smoking advocates and tobacco companies.
    Matthew Perrone, ajc, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The World Health Organization this week released its tenth report on the global tobacco epidemic, a status update on its anti-smoking campaigns.
    Katharina Buchholz, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • Parliament approved the bill on Tuesday, advancing one of the world’s most aggressive anti-smoking measures to King Charles III’s desk.
    Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The Food and Drug Administration originally proposed the ban at the urging of anti-smoking advocates back in 2022.
    Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Jan. 2025

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