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ASH Daily News

18 December 2003

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HEADLINES

Sweden to extend smoking ban to restaurants & bars
New Zealand workplaces to be smoke-free by Dec 2004
Leicester MP calls for UK-wide workplace smoking ban


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Sweden to extend smoking ban to restaurants & bars

Smoking in restaurants, cafes and bars will be banned from 1 June 2005
if government plans are given the go-ahead. The proposals call for a
complete ban on smoking in all restaurants but would make some
concessions by setting aside ventilated, closed-off smoking rooms where
no food or drink could be served, the Minister for Public Health, Morgan
Johansson, said.

The Independent, 18/1/203



New Zealand workplaces to be smoke-free by Dec 2004

New Zealand has become the latest country to pass a law that will ban
smoking in all pubs, clubs and casinos by December 2004. The initial
Smoke-free Environments Amendment Bill first introduced in July 1999
would have allowed smoking in ventilated areas but was toughened when
the Government was persuaded to back a complete ban and extend it to all
workplaces. The Act provides for very limited exemptions such as prison
cells and some residential care institutions.

Morning Advertiser, 11/12/03



Leicester MP calls for UK-wide workplace smoking ban

David Taylor, MP for NW Leicestershire and Chair of the All Party Group
on smoking and health, has tabled a Commons motion to make all
workplaces smoke-free.

Leicester Mercury, 11/12/03






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