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January 1 is the deadline for all French smokers to put their cigarettes off, as starting with this day the public smoking ban will get legal force.The entire nation is concerned with the coming restriction: owners are worried about their business and psychologists predict a nationwide shock.There was an attempt to prohibit smoking in 1 ...

Implementation of smoking ban in Turkey will hit hard more than 450.000 businesses and can cause unemployment for hundreds of people.The future of coffee houses, restaurants, bars, and cafes seems to be very dark, for the reason that half of their workers will lose their jobs if the government approves the law that will prohibit indoor s ...

Dubai Municipality published a guide to help the public facilities to regulate smoking ban and its successful implementation.That guide contains detailed information on health and safety regulations, areas where smoking is permitted, violations and proposed fines for offenders. This decision ought to make the implementation of ban more e ...

In Bridgewater, the largest town in the South Shore region, Nova Scotia, smokers initiated a demonstration against the new restrictions that the local government plans to adopt in the near future. The ordinance will prohibit smoking in almost all public places within the town’s limits.The protest was launched in the Nova Scotia com ...

More and more international experts are supporting substitution of the text warning on packs of cigarettes with graphical images, because as the experts affirm this will bring more positive results.Several Asian specialists in respiratory diseases proposed to place on packs images of lung cancer, because smoking is known to cause respira ...

The second-largest tobacco company in the U.S., RJ Reynolds, decided to suspend the advertising of its tobacco products in print form, including the newspapers and consumer magazines in 2008.However, the company can resume this kind of advertising, as this depends on changing business needs.Though, it doesn’t mean that RJ Reynold ...

Displays with effects of tobacco smoking will become mandatory for all tobacco products that are sold in India, it doesn’t matter whether they are produced by local producers or are imported from any other countries.According to government, the health warning shall appear in white font color on a red background (consisting of 100% ...

Illinois State University joins the list of the smoke-free college campuses. Only in USA, there are already 60 college campuses that promote anti-smoking policy in their campuses.Illinois State University has already prohibited smoking indoors in residential housing and student facilities.Along with еру celebrations of the New Year 2008 ...

Two businesses were fined for selling tobacco to minors after the tobacco compliance check that took place last week.The city used to practice this kind of checks annually and without announcement. This offers the opportunity to control the real statistics how the businesses respect the city ordinances. Even so, from 20 businesses only t ...

The House of Assembly has recently passed the bill that prohibits the smoking in cars if there is’are present children.It was also discussed the reducing the size of point-of-sale displays for tobacco products in shops. New displays will be reduced from four square meters to one.Also, the problem of banning the cigarette displays ...