Beijing proposes smoking ban for hotels
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Beijing is to ban smoking in 70 percent of the city's hotel rooms as it strives to clean up its air before this August's Olympic Games.
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SINGAPORE : The days of having a traditional pint and smoke may be numbered as public health specialists push for smoke-free pubs and clubs in Singapore.
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State and local governments should ban smoking in malls, restaurants and virtually all other public indoor settings and the Food and Drug Administration should regulate the marketing, packaging and sale of tobacco products, the influential Institute of Medicine said in a report today on how to...
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A government minister has told the BBC that some form of ban on smoking could be introduced in England and Wales. Tell us what you think.
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Federal health researchers on Wednesday  called on more U.S. airports to enforce smoking bans and said  the policy was being undermined by allowing smoking in  restaurants and bars.
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consisting of a hospital and medical office building - will attempt to set an example for healthful living by barring smoking in the area, officials said.
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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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China mulls new measures in environmental protection    BEIJING, Feb.
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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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Four hundred years after King James I denounced tobacco as "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs," the British government is taking heed. It announced plans Tuesday to ban smoking in most public places, including restaurants and any pub that serves food.
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From parks to bars to the workplace, more states are proposing far-reaching bans that would limit public smoking.
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Frustrated that the state legislature failed to ban smoking in bars and restaurants, Alexandria officials have come up with a maverick plan of their own that would prohibit smoking in all new eateries and make it more difficult for existing establishments to allow people to light up.
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Businesses are urged to try out a temporary smoking ban ahead of Wales' official ban in April.
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Germany is considering outlawing smoking in cars to protect passengers, particularly children, the government's narcotics commissioner Sabine Baetzing has said.
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China needs comprehensive laws to reduce the number of smokers or the habit could end up killing 2.2 million Chinese a year by 2020, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.
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A parliamentary panel in cigarette-friendly France called Tuesday for the government to ban smoking in public places like cafes and restaurants in less than a year &#151; and floated the prospect of special "smoking rooms."
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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.