How was Smoking zones useful in prevention of air pollution
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It is well known that air pollution can have serious negative effects on our health. Air pollution most often comes as a side-effect of producing energy for heating or transport.
It takes energy to produce food, treat our drinking water, manufacture the things we use, heat our homes and workplaces, and transport us to the places we need to go. Most of this energy comes from the burning of fuels – producing CO2 (which contributes to climate change) and usually some air pollutants.
District councils may declare all or part of their district a smoke control area, in order to restrict the amount of smoke emitted from chimneys in the area.
You can find out if you live in a smoke control area of Northern Ireland on the Smoke control areas section of the Air Quality NI website(external link opens in a new window/tab).
In smoke control areas, residents are required to use "authorized" smokeless fuels or install an "exempted fireplace".
Smoking zones are useful in prevention of air pollution as they prevent people from smoking in public and protects people from effects of second hand smoke, which include an increased risk of heart disease, cancer, emphysema, etc.