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[China] Chinese woman wins case after suing rail operator over smoking on ‘no smoking’ train
Beijing Railway Transport Court ruled on Monday in favour of the plaintiff, Li Ying, who had sued the train operator, Harbin Railway Bureau, for breaking its own smoking ban in her carriage, reported Huaxi City Daily, a local newspaper in Chengdu in sout
Jun 26, 2018
South China Morning Post
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Jun 26, 2018 21:37
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[UK] Child labour rampant in tobacco industry
Child labour in tobacco is rampant and on the increase... Evidence from three continents shows how children aged 14 and under are kept out of school and employed in hard and sometimes harmful physical labour to produce the tobacco leaf that fills cigare
Jun 25, 2018
The Guardian (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:28
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[UK] NHS staff smokers cost health service £200m a year with cigarette breaks and sick days, report finds
There are more than 73,000 smokers among the 1.2 million NHS employees in England and the lost working hours from their combined smoking breaks add up to £99m a year, the Royal College of Physicians’ tobacco advisory group has said. Though smoking break
Jun 26, 2018
The Independent (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:25
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[UK] Help smokers quit, doctors tell hospitals
The NHS’s failure to help smokers quit is “as negligent as not treating cancer”, top doctors say. Every smoker who goes into hospital should be treated for tobacco dependency alongside any other ailments, according to a report by the Royal College of Ph
Jun 26, 2018
Times Of London (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:22
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[UK] Hiding in plain sight: Treating tobacco dependency in the NHS
The principle of justice requires that we offer smokers help to quit smoking; failure to so implies that smokers’ health is less important than that of other patients. Failing to provide help to quit smoking while delivering other similarly or less cost
Jun 26, 2018
Royal College of Physicians (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:21
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[Canada] No logos: Tobacco firms under tight timeline to adopt plain packaging
The new federal regulations are poised to take effect within the next year, pending the outcome of further consultations — a timeline tobacco companies are already calling "unrealistic" and an "extreme measure" that will simply bolster the supply of cont
Jun 25, 2018
CBC News (ca)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:14
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Imperial Tobacco 'shocked' by Health Canada's proposal for plain packaging of cigarettes
'We still cannot understand how this government can justify legalizing marijuana while imposing such extreme measures on tobacco products'
Jun 25, 2018
Canadian Press
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Jun 26, 2018 21:12
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[Australia] Anti-smoking advocates urge governments to plug gaps in smoke-free laws
Heart Foundation and Quit Victoria are urging all employers, especially those whose staff work outdoors, to follow Eastlink's lead and introduce smoke-free policies and state governments to plug gaps in existing smoke-free legislation, which leave many p
Jun 27, 2018
Sydney Morning Herald (au)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:10
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R.J. Reynolds Cleared of Fault in Tobacco Trial Over Florida Grandmother's Death
A jury in Florida’s 11th Judicial Circuit, in Dade County, deliberated more than 10 hours before concluding Shirley Cohen was not a member of a class of smokers entitled to recover damages for smoking-related disease caused by cigarettes.
Jun 26, 2018
Courtroom View Network (CVN)
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Jun 26, 2018 20:50
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[Asia, China] Chinese Court Removes Smoking Areas From Trains
A Beijing court ruled Monday that a train operator should cancel all designated smoking areas on its trains after a passenger sued the company over secondhand smoke, The Beijing News reported. The case marks China’s first lawsuit over smoking in public
Jun 26, 2018
Sixth Tone (cn)
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Jun 26, 2018 20:49