Sources say Venetian authorities were debating pressing charges against him for a lewd act committed in public
Other states slowly followed suit, albeit at a somewhat beleaguered pace: Alaska finally signed an indoor smoking ban into law in 2018, and there are still 12 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming) where no statewide smoking restriction exists at all
The data also suggest that more high school students are vaping regularly
The return to a downward trend in the mid- to late-1990s in smoking among teenagers coincided with the launch in 1997 of the high-profile, media-led and nationally coordinated National Tobacco Campaign