Lawmakers should serve as role models in efforts to stop passive smoking.

Hiroshi Yamato, a professor of health issues at the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, citing the anti-smoking law which bans smoking in principle in the Diet building and three adjacent lawmakers’ office buildings. However, anti-smoking restrictions are more lax at the Diet building and lawmakers’ office buildings than ministry and agency buildings, and even the loose rules are not observed by many of the lawmakers.

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