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RCMP sounds alarm over surge of illegal smokes 

"I think aboriginal communities do not – do not – want to see organized crime flourish in their communities," said Souccar. A 48-page booklet handed out by the RCMP said "the largest source of illegal tobacco in Canada is manufacturing operations in aboriginal territory based on the U.S. side of Akwesasne and Kahnawake in Quebec, and Tyendinaga and Six Nations in Ontario."

The booklet also says police are increasingly seeing counterfeit cigarettes imported from China.

"The current trend of manufacturing, distributing and selling contraband tobacco products ... involves organized crime networks exploiting aboriginal communities and the politically sensitive relationship between these communities and the different levels of government and enforcement agencies, as well as counterfeit tobacco products arriving in Canada mainly from China."

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[视频]北京开出禁烟措施后首张责令整改通知书 

今天中午，北京卫生监督员在北京和平里的一家餐馆开出“北京5月1号起实施公共场所禁烟规定”后的第一张责令整改通知书，该餐馆没有张贴禁烟标识，三天后不整顿将被罚款。

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北京首张控烟整改通知单开出 

新的北京市公共场所禁烟令已实施5天，控烟难度最大的餐馆饭店进展如何？昨天中午就餐高峰期间，北京市卫生局、市爱卫会、卫生监督所等部门负责人和卫生监督执法人员联合抽查了部分餐馆的禁烟状况，并且对一家未悬挂禁烟标志的餐馆，开出了首张整改通知单。

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郑州市公共场合一律禁烟 城市管理规定出台 

今后，本市公共场所禁烟、施工工地的管理以及养犬管理工作情况都将成为市政府城管考核的重要内容。《郑州市城市管理工作考核方案》昨日出台，凡对城市管理工作失职、渎职的，将依法追究相关单位和人员的责任。

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戒烟大赛6月1日举办 戒半年可赢万元 

上海市健康教育所日前发布信息称，今年全市戒烟大赛将于6月1日起正式举办。凡本市范围内年满18周岁，正在吸烟或者使用其他烟草制品，并且“烟龄”超过一年的烟民，只要成功戒烟半年以上就有机会赢得万元大奖。

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沈出租车将行“禁烟令” 

奥运会前，沈阳1.7万辆出租车将实行禁烟，让乘客有个舒心的乘车环境。

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Get rid of smoking, win money 

If you are a regular smoker, your daily habit is, whether you admit it or not, costing your money and health. Now you are offered a chance to win some money and save your health at the same time. Easy?

The first nationwide give-up-smoking competition, to be launched on June 1, is accepting applications through to May 31, the World No Tobacco Day.

Citizens can sign up for the event at local centers for disease control and prevention.

As a joint effort by the Ministry of Health and several other government departments, the competition aims to promote healthy living and a smoke-free Beijing Olympics.

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Beijing implements smoking ban - Telegraph 

Beijing's heavily polluted air became a touch cleaner yesterday as China, which boasts 350 million nicotine addicts, brought its first public smoking ban into force.

Ever nervous of popular unrest, Beijing had already toned down the measure, which had been long touted as one of many improvements to public life to be introduced before this summer's Olympics.

Following protests from managers and owners, restaurants and bars were excluded at the last minute.

The government also timed the introduction for the national May Day holiday, when government offices would be empty. In China, bureaucrats' desks often feature little more than a handful of documents - and a heavily loaded ash-tray.

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China Expands Effort to Make Olympics Smoke-Free 

Morning Edition, April 30, 2008 · Beijing is pledging a tobacco-free Olympics, and as part of that promise, the city will expand its existing smoking ban in certain public areas Thursday. But past government smoking bans have been widely ignored.

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Beijing introduces anti-smoking rules for Olympics 

g introduced sweeping new rules against smoking in public places Thursday in an effort to create a "smoke-free Olympics," state press said.

The new rules mean hotels and restaurants will for the first time have to offer smoke-free facilities in the Chinese capital, where dining venues are often filled with an acrid haze.

All public venues including fitness centres, offices, meeting rooms, toilets, and lifts in buildings must be completely smoke-free from Thursday, state news agency Xinhua said.

Authorities in the Chinese capital have hired 100,000 inspectors to enforce the ban, the news agency said.

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• Smoking ban for Chinese capital 

A ban on smoking in most public buildings has come into force in the Chinese capital, Beijing.

The move is an attempt to discourage some of China's 350 million smokers and also part of wider efforts to clean up the city in the run up to the Olympics.

For every three cigarettes lit worldwide, one is smoked in China. Almost 25% of the Chinese smoke.

Smoking is also contributing to a rapid rise of cancer and heart disease in the world's most populous country.

Enforcement team

In Beijing, the smokers are everywhere - and it feels like it. But now that may change.

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• 95 percent of 1,000 tons of tobacco illegaly obtained  

Selar, Smyrna, İmeks, and Şerbetli are four firms producing flavored nargile tobacco. The annual sales rate of these firms is about 24 tons. But "tömbeki," a special type of tobacco used in nargile, is only produced by Tekel. The four firms established during 2004-05 to supply flavored tobacco for the domestic market as a result of the recent spread of nargile smoking have tended to exports due to the hegemony of illegal tobacco penetrating the domestic market from abroad, and the increase in taxes. . . .

The Aegean city of İzmir is the center of nargile manufacturing. But Istanbul, too, played its part until a few years ago. Workshops in Kapalıçarşı (the Grand Bazaar) were working hard to supply nargiles to more than 200 souvenir shops in the bazaar. But 25 of about 40 workshops in Kapalıçarşı had to close down due cheap nargiles that were imported from China three years ago. . . .

The latest ban on smoking of tobacco products, including the nargile, was approved in Parliament on Jan. 3, 2008. Nargile cafes have been given an extension of one-an-a-half years to implement the ban.

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Beijing smoking ban goes into effect 

BEIJING (AP)-Beijing's battle to ban smoking in most public areas began in earnest Thursday as part of the government's commitment to hold a smoke-free Olympics.

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• Survey: Smoking leaves bad impression 

Male smokers who think cigarettes make them more masculine may be disappointed as nearly 68 percent of people said in a survey that tobacco leaves nothing but a bad smell, China Youth Daily reported today.

About 67.7 percent of 5,482 respondents said in an online survey by the newspaper from April 22-24 that they felt male smokers smelled awkward while 39.8 percent considered them dirty, the Beijing-based newspaper said.

In contrast, less than 10 percent of respondents said cigarettes can make a man look more masculine and tough like characters in TV dramas and movies, the report said.

The act of lighting up also hurts the image of females as 73 percent agreed that women looked emaciated and perverted

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Beijing: smoking ban in public places from May 1  

Two waitresses stand as a "non-smoking area" sign is seen on the wall in a restaurant in Bejing, capital of China, on May 1, 2008.

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