TY - JOUR T1 - Is the smoke-free protections glass half full or half empty? JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - e178 LP - e178 DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052663 VL - 24 IS - e3 AU - Andrew Hyland Y1 - 2015/10/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/24/e3/e178.abstract N2 - Many take for granted the privilege to breathe clean air free of tobacco smoke. However, this privilege is not universal. The articles in this supplement highlight these points from different perspectives and populations and leave me wondering whether the glass is half full or half empty when it comes to world progress towards providing smoke-free environments.Talias et al1 report that even in a country like Cyprus, where more than one in three are cigarette smokers, a comprehensive nationwide smoke-free law can be implemented without the proverbial economic sky falling. However, there are huge populations that are missing out … ER -