Legal challenge to ban on smoking
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A legal challenge to the government's smoking ban in England will be launched at the High Court.
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Scotland became the latest country to take a stand against tobacco on Wednesday by announcing a ban on smoking in public buildings.
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Ministers are planning to introduce a complete ban on smoking in eating establishments in England. The White Paper on Public Health, being unveiled on Tuesday, will propose a ban in restaurants, offices and pubs that serve prepared food.
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Smokers could be forced to pay Â£10 for a permit to buy tobacco if government health advisers get their way.
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Ministers could be facing legal challenges over Holyrood's proposed smoking ban.
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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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Health Secretary John Reid said to day that it is needed a range of measures to make people give up smoking, it is not enough just to ban.
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WASHINGTON - A lawyer for the tobacco industry on Wednesday rejected the government's claim that cigarette companies conspired for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking and should forfeit $280 billion generated by the alleged fraud.    To win the case, the government must prove the scheme existed and is likely to continue...
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The ban on smoking in public places in Scotland will help to save lives, the government says.
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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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The British Medical Council in Wales asks GPs to lobby for a ban on smoking by writing to their MPs.
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WASHINGTON - After five years of legal wrangling, the nation's largest cigarette-makers are meeting federal lawyers in court for the trial phase of the government's record $280 billion civil racketeering suit against the tobacco industry.    The government alleges the industry conspired to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking and the addictive nature of nicotine, and illegally targeted children through marketing campaigns...
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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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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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MPs and peers today called on Health Secretary John Reid to outlaw smoking in public places after a fact-finding mission to Dublin.
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The Countryside Alliance prepares a legal challenge to the Parliament Act - used to force the hunt ban into law.
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Britain&#39;s government on Tuesday proposed banning smoking in most public places, setting off debate over what one smoker decried as the brainchild of a busybody &quot;nanny state.