Britons favor raising legal smoking age
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A poll commissioned by the BBC found four out of five people want the legal smoking age in Britain to be raised from 16 to 18. The nationwide poll of 1,010 adults in England, Wales and Scotland, conducted by ICM on Aug.
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The Smoking Prevention Working Group calls for the legal age for smoking to be raised to 18.
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BERLIN, Feb 8 (IPS) - It is not a very good time to be a smoker in  Europe. Governments have raised prices and banned cigarettes in  public places, including restaurants and bars, and social  pressure is mounting due to the individual and collective health  risks.
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The law will be changed within months to raise the age for buying cigarettes, Scotland's health minister says.
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Nearly seven out of 10 Britons want to  see smoking banned in restaurants, pubs and offices, according  to a poll published on Tuesday.
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Astana. November 10. KAZINFORM. Medical chiefs have urged Scottish ministers to take the lead in the UK and ban smoking in public places.
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Four out of five people want the legal age of smoking raised from 16 to 18, to deter youngsters from taking up the habit, a new report has found.
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Britain is to ban smoking in most public places, according to reports ahead of the launch of an ambitious goverment effort to legislate its way to better public health.
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Government plans to ban smoking in the majority of enclosed public spaces in England, ranging from offices to restaurants, within four years were labelled a &quot;bodge&quot; yesterday.
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Four hundred years after King James I denounced tobacco as "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs," the British government is taking heed. It announced plans Tuesday to ban smoking in most public places, including restaurants and any pub that serves food.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. The Health Department is aiming its latest anti-smoking campaign at 18- to 25-year-old Vermonters. About 30 percent of the people in that age group smoke.
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Smoking in most enclosed public places will be banned in England within four years, the government said today. All restaurants, pubs and bars which prepare and serve food will not be able to allow smoking
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Smoking in public places and places of work is now banned in all of Britain with England&#39;s entrance into an ever-expanding club of nations that bar the habit.
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Nov. 16, 2004 - Britain unveiled tough plans Tuesday to ban smoking in all workplaces and restaurants, as well as most pubs and bars, as part of a major push to improve the health of the nation.
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Freedom for the National Assembly to have its own say on the scale and speed of a smoking ban. In England a ban on smoking in all Government workplaces and NHS buildings will be in place by 2006.
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Almost every pub, cafe and restaurant in England could be smoke-free if new White Paper proposals are approved. Is it good news for you?
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British ministers are to unveil proposals for an English ban on smoking in public places Tuesday, news reports said. The government&#39;s White Paper on Public Health, due to