Trade fumes over smoke ban plans
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The Scottish Executive's wide-ranging consultation on a public smoking ban is labelled a "sham".
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TORONTO (CP) - Bar and corner-store owners winced while anti-tobacco activists celebrated Wednesday as the Ontario government introduced a provincewide ban on smoking, part of what it considers the toughest anti-tobacco strategy on the continent.
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A committee working on tax bills passed by the US House of Representatives and US Senate failed to agree on key tobacco-related provisions, Reuters reported Oct. 5. The corporate tax bill passed by the Senate
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Businesses that offer customers shisha water pipes to smoke tobacco are waging an 11th-hour bid for an exemption to a smoking ban that comes into force in England on Sunday.
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Under the Smoke-Free Ontario Act, Myung Jin - who has been at this Greenwood Cigar and Variety for 20 years â-ust ban any displays that allow customers to touch tobacco products as well as remove any countertop displays for cigarettes starting May 31
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Scotland's five-month old smoking ban is   hitting pubs and bingo clubs, two British companies reported on   Friday, giving investors more clues what to expect when similar   legislation comes into force in England next year.
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Regulations are being set out under which all UK tobacco products will have to carry picture health warnings.
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Smoking has been banned in bars in the capitals of France and Germany. Send us your reaction.
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FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick Health Department is trying to clear the air about the province&#39;s new smoking ban as the countdown begins to for public places to go smoke free.
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In a major setback for public health groups, congressional tax negotiators on Tuesday blocked a plan to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco, but
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Campaigners say a ban on smoking in public places could save more lives than new anti-cancer drugs.
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Manuel Bussac predicts he will smoke more and work less when France's ban on smoking in public spaces kicks in Thursday. His firefighter friend, Bernard Geoffrey, says the ban will help him quit his pack-a-day habit.
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The government has announced that it will become the latest European country to ban smoking in public spaces from next July, but a hardcore of opposition persists in the teeth of broad public support.
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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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Leisure group Rank braces itself for the smoking ban in England and Wales as sales continue to slide north of the border.
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ritain&#39;s government proposed banning smoking in most public places yesterday, setting off debate over what one smoker decried as the brainchild of a busybody &quot;nanny state.
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WASHINGTON/SCOTTSDALE, Arizona  - The tobacco wars are back in the U.S. Congress, but the battle lines have shifted and anti-smoking forces are no longer facing a monolithic tobacco industry and loyal legislators.