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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.
Apr 3, 2013
ITV Network Limited (uk)
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Apr 3, 2013 09:28
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[Australia] Quad bikes: tobacco on four wheels
Comparisons of the quad [bike] and tobacco industry tactics are compelling. As identified, the combination of rigid policy stances requiring irrefutable evidence of risk, social attitudes and interference by vested interests often result in policy makers
Apr 1, 2013
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
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Apr 17, 2013 07:30
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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
Mar 29, 2013
STV (uk)
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Apr 1, 2013 09:36
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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
Mar 27, 2013
Scottish Executive (uk)
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Apr 3, 2013 03:08
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[Maryland] Senate votes to ban smoking in cars with kids
The Maryland Senate last week passed a bill that would prohibit drivers and passengers in vehicles from smoking when a child younger than 8 is present. The Senate passed the bill 27-20, the second year in a row the chamber has voted to support it, givin
Mar 27, 2013
Southern Maryland Newspapers
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Mar 27, 2013 15:07
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[Connecticut] Red light cameras, ban on smoking in cars die in committee
Guerrera said the legislation raised questions over what age it becomes appropriate to have kids inhaling second-hand smoke. “It didn’t make sense. Why is it okay to smoke with a 7-year-old kid in the car and not a six-year-old?” he asked.
Mar 27, 2013
New Haven (CT) Register
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Mar 27, 2013 15:06
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[California] Anti-tobacco crusade closes motorhome-based CigaRV business
A California State Board of Equalization directive that apparently went unnoticed in a BOE newsletter threatens to close a popular San Francisco Bay Area mobile tobacco business that operates out of a classic GMC motor home. Jack Grant’s 26-foot-long mob
Mar 27, 2013
Examiner.com (National)
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Mar 27, 2013 10:31
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[Australia] Coffee Can Help Truckers Stay Safe on the Road: Study
There was a link between heavy smoking and crash risk, but this did not remain after accounting for other factors, according to the study, which was published online March 19 in the British Medical Journal.
Mar 20, 2013
HealthDay [HealthScout]
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Mar 20, 2013 15:24
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[Oregon] No smoking with kids in car
A bill that would ban smoking in a motor vehicle if a minor is present moved to the Senate floor earlier this month and was expanded to include products besides tobacco. Senate Bill 444 would make it illegal to smoke any tobacco product in a motor vehic
Mar 20, 2013
Salem (OR) Statesman-Journal
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Mar 20, 2013 15:21
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Md. Senate votes to outlaw smoking in cars with young children as passengers
The Maryland Senate voted 27 to 20 on Wednesday to ban smoking in cars when there is a passenger younger than age 8. Supporters of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Robert A. Zirkin (D-Baltimore County), argued that the health effects of second-hand smoke on
Mar 20, 2013
The Washington Post
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Mar 20, 2013 15:09