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[UK-Scotland] Cigarette smuggler Douglas Allison ordered to pay £30000

Douglas Allison, 47, has been ordered to pay £30,000 within six months or face a further 14 months in prison. Last year, he was jailed for six-and-a-half years at Maidstone Crown Court for trying to smuggle the cigarettes into Dover and Newhaven.
BBC Online
added Apr 8, 2013 08:42
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[UK-Scotland] Tobacco firm to challenge plain cigarette pack plan

THE tobacco giant JTI is preparing to challenge the Scottish Government's plain cigarette packets plans in an advertising campaign next week. It will reveal correspondence, obtained through Freedom of Information, from the Department of Health in which
The Scotsman (uk)
added Apr 7, 2013 10:22
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[UK-Scotland] Fresh calls for car smoking ban

A South of Scotland MSP says he has had widespread support for his proposal to ban people smoking in cars if their children are with them.
ITV Network Limited (uk)
added Apr 4, 2013 10:08
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[UK-Scotland] Retailers' plain cigarette packaging fears

PETROL station shops will suffer a "significant impact" to their trade if plain packaging of tobacco products goes ahead, with rural forecourts likely to be the worst hit, the industry has warned.
Herald Scotland (The Herald and Sunday Herald) (uk)
added Apr 4, 2013 09:50
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[UK-Scotland] Car kids smoking ban plea

South of Scotland MSP Jim Hume is planning to launch a campaign to ban smoking in cars when children are present. Australia, Canada and South Africa are among those countries who have already banned smoking in vehicles.
ITV Network Limited (uk)
added Apr 3, 2013 09:28
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[UK-Scotland] Cancer Research UK welcomes Scotland's landmark commitment to a tobacco free future

“We share the Scottish Government’s vision of a Scotland free from tobacco. For too long, smoking has been seen as an everyday activity. But it is actually an addictive, lethal activity that kills half of all long-term users. There is no level of smoking
Cancer Research UK (uk)
added Apr 3, 2013 03:12
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[UK-Scotland] Tobacco Control Strategy - Creating a Tobacco-Free Generation

The strategy sets out a 5 year plan for action across the key themes of health inequalities, prevention, protection and cessation. Key actions include: setting 2034 as a target date for reducing smoking prevalence to 5%; a pilot of the schools-based ASSI
Scottish Executive (uk)
added Apr 3, 2013 03:08
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[UK-Scotland] MSP Jim Hume plans to ban adults smoking in cars with children

Jim Hume, a list MSP for South of Scotland, says similar laws have been successfully introduced in countries such as Australia, Canada and South Africa. He said outlawing smoking at the wheel would stop children suffering passive smoking on the way to s
STV (uk)
added Apr 1, 2013 09:36
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[UK-Scotland] RIDGWAY: Plain cigarette packaging an incentive to counterfeiters

I have worked in the packaging industry for more than 40 years and can assure you the introduction of plain packaging for tobacco products will have unintended consequences ("Campaigners back plan for plain cigarette packaging", The Herald, March 28).
Herald Scotland (The Herald and Sunday Herald) (uk)
added Mar 30, 2013 18:58
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[UK, UK-Scotland] Scotland to ban smoking in parks

Smoking is on course to be banned in public parks and other council-controlled outdoor areas, under radical plans to make Scotland 'smoke free' by 2034.
Electronic Telegraph (uk)
added Mar 29, 2013 13:52
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