Political pressure thwarts India anti-smoking move
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Political pressure has blocked a plan to put graphic pictorial warnings on cigarette packets, India's health minister said on Friday, seen as key in reducing the nearly 1 million deaths a year due to tobacco use.
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Ministers are planning to ban smoking in eateries, but will stop short of an outright ban affecting all public places.
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THE government is today expected to announce wide-ranging restrictions on smoking in public - but will stop short of a total ban. Health Secretary John Reid is due to unveil a blueprint for the nation&#39;s health
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Thousands of landless workers, indigenous people and "untouchables" from the bottom of Indian society were yesterday prevented from taking their demands to the country's parliament - the final leg of their month-long protest march.
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Never mind that Austria's lenient new anti-smoking law actually exempts bars and restaurants, the country's smokers and tobacconists have still declared all-out war against the measure, which went into effect ...
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Ministers could be facing legal challenges over Holyrood's proposed smoking ban.
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A ban on smoking in public places is being enforced in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, for the first time.
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GAYA, India -- Gearing up for the final push to wipe out polio, India has run into a hurdle in an eastern state, where poor, conservative communities are refusing to give polio drops to children because they distrust the medicine and its distributors.
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Seven years after being rebuffed by the Supreme Court, anti-smoking advocates are again seeking federal regulation of tobacco, a step they say is needed to deter children from lighting up and to get smokers to quit.
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Global anti-tobacco efforts aimed at avoiding tens of millions of preventable deaths have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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World Health Organisation urges governments to act now to dramatically reduce tobacco use
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Turkey's parliament approved on Thursday a sweeping ban on smoking in bars and restaurants, but commentators say enforcing the new law could prove difficult in a nation long addicted to nicotine.
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Cigarette advertising restrictions - described as some of the strictest in the world - come into force.
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Tough new measures to further restrict cigarette advertising in shops and pubs come into force today. Advertising space for tobacco products at kiosks and other outlets are
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SOFIA, Jan 8: The Bulgarian government banned smoking in some public places as of January 1, but in a country where half of the population smokes both restaurant owners and smokers are resisting the government ...
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China's stability could be threatened if the government tried to curb smoking, a senior official said on Wednesday at a discussion of the annual meeting of parliament.
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The government is resisting renewed pressure to ratify and implement the Kyoto Protocol as it came into effect amid claims Australia's refusal to join will damage its international reputation.