Canada to require self-extinguishing smokes
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In an effort to reduce house fires, Canada will soon require cigarettes to be designed to go out when left unattended. Canadian health minister Ujjal Dosanjh introduced new rules
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Preliminary findings suggest that outdoor secondhand smoke could constitute a health risk.
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TORONTO - The Ontario government unveiled plans Wednesday to ban smoking in all workplaces and most other enclosed public places within 18 months.
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TORONTO - Royal Canadian Legion halls and so-called private clubs will have to butt out under anti-smoking legislation the Ontario government plans to introduce this month, Health Minister George Smitherman said Tuesday.
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Reports suggest there are plans to force pubs and restaurants to apply for a special licence to allow smoking.
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Pub owners are stunned to discover the province wants to ban smoking in all public places beginning in 2006. Mark Mishriky is fuming over a proposed law that would banish smokers from patios -- like the one
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SHELBY, Mont.  -The Canadian operator of a Montana horse feedlot must extinguish a large manure fire that sends a stench over Shelby, the state Department of Environmental Quality said.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba  - A major landlord in the   Prairie city of Winnipeg will not let new tenants smoke in   their homes or on their balconies under new rules designed in   part to cut maintenance costs, an official said on Tuesday.
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Toronto -- Health Canada is proposing substantial changes to current requirements for the labelling of tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers, the federal department said yesterday.
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Obligatory Â£200 addict permit A government advisor has suggested that the problem of Brits continuing to smoke themselves to death might be tackled by requiring nicotine addicts to obtain a Â£200 annual licence, the Telegraph reports.â¦
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Ontario smokers could find themselves way out in the cold, if the province goes ahead with a plan for sweeping, no-smoking zones around all public buildings.
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Health Minister George Smitherman begins to roll out his crackdown plan Friday night, unveiling an ad campaign aimed at young people to get them to stop smoking and to convince them not to start.
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Canadaâs highest court upheld a law limiting tobacco advertising, ruling that although the restrictions limited the rights of cigarette companies to free speech the curbs were justified by the need to improve public health. The Supreme Court judges said there was nothing wrong with the 1997 law that banned broadcast commercials and advertising aimed at young people and that obliged companies to put large graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. Canadaâs three big tobacco companies had argued the limitations unfairly infringed their right of free expression. But in a unanimous decision, the court said the need to protect public health took precedence.
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Ontarians are about to get their first look at a plan their provincial government says will be the most sweeping anti-tobacco agenda in the country.
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Australia will ban smoking in all hotels and bars, except those in the outback Northern Territory, in a move to stop the death of hundreds of bartenders each year from breathing second-hand smoke.
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Millions of Chileans will now be forced to take their cigarette breaks outside because of a tough nationwide anti-smoking law that took effect Monday.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - New Brunswick health officials have warned that smoke from forest fires in northwestern Ontario could pose a health risk for people in the Maritime province.  Dr.