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Coalition for Bulgaria, business discuss smoking ban

Representatives of the parliamentary group of Coalition for Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association are discussing at parliament the proposed amendments to the regulation on the full smoking ban at public places, FOCUS News Agency repo
Focus English News (bg)
added May 27, 2013 12:18
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[Asia, Israel] Cigarette ads bill goes to plenum for approval

Proposed law would limit advertising and require tobacco companies to attach deterring images to packs.
Jerusalem Post
added May 27, 2013 11:34
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Bulgarian hospitality industry presses new government for backtrack on smoking ban

Determined to take up the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the party’s prime ministerial candidate Plamen Oresharski on promises to backtrack on the country’s full ban on smoking in public places, the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association has called fo
Sofia Globe
added May 27, 2013 11:25
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Bulgaria's CEDB leader: Smoking and healthcare cannot go along together

“If the next government rejects the smoking ban in public places, this move will be in total contradiction to what they said about working actively in the healthcare sector, because these two things – smoking and healthcare, cannot go along together,” sai
Focus English News (bg)
added May 27, 2013 11:24
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[Alaska] Bethel city rakes in revenue from new tobacco tax

A new excise tax on tobacco in the Southwest Alaska hub of Bethel brought the city more than $25,000 in its first month in effect. With an election looming, city officials have yet to decide what to do with the money.
Alaska Dispatch
added May 27, 2013 12:32
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[Kuwait] Activate law that bans smoking of shishas in restaurants – MP

MP Saud Al-Huraiji has called on the Minister of Commerce and Industry and cafe and restaurant owners to activate a law that bans the consumption of ‘shisha’ (water pipes) in restaurants, especially indoors. “This behavior contradicts with the traditions
Arab Times (kw)
added May 27, 2013 11:32
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[UK] Henry Smith MP: We must stop our children getting hooked on cigarettes

For all of us who know someone who might have lived longer if they hadn’t smoked – and for those who don’t want their children to start – we must get rid of these. Putting tobacco in plain, standardised packs is the right step to take. It’s a move that w
ConservativeHome (blog) (uk)
added May 26, 2013 13:01
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[Ireland] CROWN: Big Tobacco is not our friend, Taoiseach

The meeting between senior FG figures and cigarette chiefs should never have happened, says John Crown
Irish Independent (ie)
added May 26, 2013 02:20
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There is attitude to review smoking ban in public places: socialists’ candidate for Bulgarian PM

There is an attitude to review the smoking ban in public places without any fundamentally revolutionary changes, Plamen Oresharski, who has been nominated for a prime minister by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, said in an interview with Bulgarian TV 7.
Focus English News (bg)
added May 27, 2013 16:48
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[California] Bill would treat e-cigarettes like other tobacco

California would treat electronic cigarettes like any other tobacco product by restricting where people can use them in public under a bill approved by the state Senate on Friday. Some of the vapors or nicotine emitted by the e-cigarettes may pose health
AP - Associated Press
added May 25, 2013 13:31
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