Tobacco advertising curbed
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New controls on tobacco advertising have come into effect, the latest step in a government campaign against smoking. Cigarette and tobacco advertising in shops, pubs and clubs will now be
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Smoking in pubs, restaurants and the office is expected to be banned later thanks to new Government plans to improve the nation&#39;s health.
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Ministers unveil the first advertising campaign to highlight the "invisible dangers" of passive smoking.
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Lawmakers must move quickly to keep tobacco companies from continuing to label cigarettes as "low tar" and "light" following a landmark federal court ruling that said several major tobacco companies have conspired to mislead the public about the health hazards of smoking, an anti-tobacco senator said Thursday.
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Ministers suppressed an official report on the dangers of passive smoking to prevent public pressure growing for a ban on smoking in public, campaigners claimed yesterday.
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TORONTO - Nov. 1, 2004 â-mployers who banned smoking in the workplace in 1980s and 1990s usually did so to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke.
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Philip Morris USA cut wholesale discounts on its best-selling Marlboro cigarettes and three other brands, a spokeswoman said on Friday, effectively raising prices for the first time in more than two-and-a-half years.
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TORONTO -- Health Canada is proposing substantial changes to requirements for the labelling of tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers, the federal department said yesterday. While health warnings -- in place since 2000 -- are &quot;working ...
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Government tries to limit TV advertising and sales along highways
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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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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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The British government has won another battle in its war against cigarette smoking, with strict new limitations on advertising in commercial venues taking effect Tuesday.
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Hard-hitting ads to encourage smokers to quit, particularly parents, will appear on TV screens from Boxing Day.
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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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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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China, the world's biggest cigarette producer and consumer, will ban all tobacco advertising by 2011, Chinese media reported on Tuesday.
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A ban on TV adverts for casinos, betting shops and online gambling will be scrapped under new rules.