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Legislation coming to discourage smoking in public spaces 

THE Health Ministry hopes to have legislation in place by the end of the year, that will seek to discourage the purchase and smoking of tobacco products in public spaces.

Last year the government said it would move to impose a total ban on cigarette advertising and on smoking in all state-owned buildings, following Cabinet's approval of Jamaica's ratification of the United Nations Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2005. However, Dr Eva Lewis Fuller, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health, told the Observer that the ministry experienced several setbacks in pushing the legislations forward.

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