However, says Koong Shin-lan, director of the Bureau of Health Promotion and Protection at the Department of Health (DOH), there many factors which lead to smoking, and smokers are in any case generally aware of the dangers involved, so it is difficult to change their individual behavior. The best thing that can be done is to reduce the dangers of second-hand smoke.
衛生署保健處科長孔憲蘭指出，導致吸煙的因素很多，而吸煙者又未立即看到危險性，因此很難改變其行為，只能從減少二手煙的危害著手。