Editing Cigarette (section)

=== Smoking restrictions ===
{{further|List of smoking bans}}
Many governments impose [[smoking ban|restrictions on smoking tobacco]], especially in public areas. The primary justification has been the negative health effects of [[second-hand smoke]].<ref name=second>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050906213831/http://www.who.int/tobacco/framework/WHO_FCTC_english.pdf WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control]}}; First international treaty on public health, adopted by 192 countries and signed by 168. Its Article 8.1 states, "Parties recognize that scientific evidence has unequivocally established that exposure to tobacco causes death, disease and disability."</ref> Laws vary by country and locality. Nearly all countries have laws restricting places where people can smoke in public, and over 40 countries have comprehensive smoke-free laws that prohibit smoking in virtually all public venues.