ASH Daily News for 17/10/2005
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ASH Daily News
17 October 2005
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Minister likely to unveil Northern Ireland smoking ban for 2007
BAT's secret North Korean factory
Ireland smoking ban is protecting workers' health
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Minister likely to unveil Northern Ireland smoking ban for 2007
Northern Ireland Health Minister Shaun Woodward will announce what is expected to be a total ban after months of consultation and pressure from those who want a complete ban and those wanting a more restricted ban.
The minister is understood to have rejected the partial ban after advice it could face legal challenge from workers still left open to the dangers of passive smoking.
It will be April 2007 before any new legislation comes into effect in Northern Ireland.
Source: Belfast Telegraph, BBC, 17 October 2005
Article links: (BBC) http://tinyurl.com/82wg4: (BT) http://tinyurl.com/8osld
BAT's secret North Korean factory
British American Tobacco, the world's second largest cigarette company, has secretly been operating a factory in North Korea for the past four years, the Guardian has learned. The company opened the plant in a joint venture with a state owned corporation shortly before the regime was denounced by George Bush as a member of the "axis of evil", and despite widespread concern over the country's human rights record.
BAT has never mentioned the factory in its annual accounts, and it is thought that many shareholders are unaware of its links with the country.
The discovery of the secret factory comes two years after BAT was forced to pull out of Myanmar, formerly Burma, under pressure from the UK government and human rights campaigners. The human rights record of the communist regime in North Korea is widely regarded as even worse than that of the brutal military dictatorship in Burma.
Source: Guardian, SBS, 17 October 2005
Article link: (G) http://tinyurl.com/8uftc: (SBS) http://tinyurl.com/a7dvy
Ireland smoking ban is protecting workers' health
Bar workers in the Republic of Ireland are experiencing health benefits after a smoking ban was introduced last year, according to two new studies.
The British Medical Association (BMA) is using the evidence to reiterate its calls for a complete ban on smoking in all enclosed public places in England.
Present plans for a smoking ban would exclude pubs and bars that do not serve food.
In the first study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), scientists took the opportunity of the imminent smoking ban in the Republic of Ireland to compare its effects on workers here, with those in nearby Northern Ireland, where no ban is in place.
Source: BMA, Dehavilland, 17 October 2005
Article link: (BMA) http://tinyurl.com/bb422:(D) http://tinyurl.com/d2q8d
Study abstract: (BMJ) http://tinyurl.com/9bfj8
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ASH Daily News
17 October 2005
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HEADLINES
Minister likely to unveil Northern Ireland smoking ban for 2007
BAT's secret North Korean factory
Ireland smoking ban is protecting workers' health
FULL TEXT
Minister likely to unveil Northern Ireland smoking ban for 2007
Northern Ireland Health Minister Shaun Woodward will announce what is expected to be a total ban after months of consultation and pressure from those who want a complete ban and those wanting a more restricted ban.
The minister is understood to have rejected the partial ban after advice it could face legal challenge from workers still left open to the dangers of passive smoking.
It will be April 2007 before any new legislation comes into effect in Northern Ireland.
Source: Belfast Telegraph, BBC, 17 October 2005
Article links: (BBC) http://tinyurl.com/82wg4: (BT) http://tinyurl.com/8osld
BAT's secret North Korean factory
British American Tobacco, the world's second largest cigarette company, has secretly been operating a factory in North Korea for the past four years, the Guardian has learned. The company opened the plant in a joint venture with a state owned corporation shortly before the regime was denounced by George Bush as a member of the "axis of evil", and despite widespread concern over the country's human rights record.
BAT has never mentioned the factory in its annual accounts, and it is thought that many shareholders are unaware of its links with the country.
The discovery of the secret factory comes two years after BAT was forced to pull out of Myanmar, formerly Burma, under pressure from the UK government and human rights campaigners. The human rights record of the communist regime in North Korea is widely regarded as even worse than that of the brutal military dictatorship in Burma.
Source: Guardian, SBS, 17 October 2005
Article link: (G) http://tinyurl.com/8uftc: (SBS) http://tinyurl.com/a7dvy
Ireland smoking ban is protecting workers' health
Bar workers in the Republic of Ireland are experiencing health benefits after a smoking ban was introduced last year, according to two new studies.
The British Medical Association (BMA) is using the evidence to reiterate its calls for a complete ban on smoking in all enclosed public places in England.
Present plans for a smoking ban would exclude pubs and bars that do not serve food.
In the first study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), scientists took the opportunity of the imminent smoking ban in the Republic of Ireland to compare its effects on workers here, with those in nearby Northern Ireland, where no ban is in place.
Source: BMA, Dehavilland, 17 October 2005
Article link: (BMA) http://tinyurl.com/bb422:(D) http://tinyurl.com/d2q8d
Study abstract: (BMJ) http://tinyurl.com/9bfj8
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