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Around 8 months after banning smoking in public places in Jordan, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad issues a decree banning smoking in public places and public transportation. Those who are caught smoking in public will be paying a fee of 2000 Syrian...
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The question comes immediately to mind whether, President Obama, possesses the intelligence, strength and human willpower to lead the most powerful democratic country...
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When a strict anti-tobacco law came into effect three years ago, Maria Eugenia Avila scoffed. She had no intention of quitting the two packs a day she was delightfully...
made popular Oct 14 2009
It’s been a long time since passengers have been allowed to smoke on an airliner in the United States. It’s the same story in Europe. But now the smoking crowd...
made popular Sep 29 2009
Nothing seems too draconian when it comes to discouraging the populace from puffing on tobacco. Seven years after New York instituted its ban on smoking inside clubs,...
made popular Sep 16 2009
Drinking, promiscuity and a cycle of low aspiration mean Britain is becoming the ‘bad parent’ of the western world.
A vast study of youngsters’...
made popular Sep 3 2009
Few anti tobacco messages through which almost all us come across are — smoking kills you, smoking is injurious for your health, it can cause cancer and can cause...
made popular Aug 29 2009
By declaring public places as free of smoking is one of the most positive and commendable moves of the current government. Smoking in public offices and other public...
made popular Jul 29 2009
The famed British Pub is more than a bar for which an occasional drink is had, rather is almost daily British routine, a part of British culture and a motif exported to...
made popular Jul 24 2009
Well, guys males have all rights to puff anywhere they want but females are not allowed for same. Don’t get shocked reading this, its strange but true, this incident...
made popular Jul 3 2009
The upsurge of lawsuits against tobacco companies in the 1990s did not happen because greedy trial lawyers suddenly realized the money to be made by suing “Big...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Greece will impose a tobacco ban in public places on July 1 in its third attempt in a decade to stamp out the habit in Europe’s biggest-smoking nation, the health...
made popular Jun 12 2009
While the taxes on cigarettes have been raised in years, it seems that it is not about money, but control. Experts believe that such “punitive” taxes will...
made popular Apr 22 2009
According to a study by the Pennsylvania University, dangling enough dollars in front of smokers who want to quit helps. The experiment on 900 General Electric workers...
made popular Feb 12 2009
Kelly Marley Pocock 24, from Merthyr Wales from South Wales, a mother who just did not care much about the bad effects of smoking. She just let her son, three year old,...
made popular Jan 23 2009
First of all, and because I see that Michael C hasn’t yet done so, (please excuse him, he even forgets MY BIRTHDAY) I shall say it for him. HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
Oh, and...
made popular Jan 5 2009
After much research, the US Public Health Commisiion has recommended some counseling and medication treatments that are considerably more effective for people looking...
made popular Dec 2 2008
As far as the question of how to quit smoking is concerned, there are many methods: herbal quit smoking techniques, quit smoking laser therapy, music and relaxation...
made popular Nov 14 2008
It’s easy to laugh at cigarette ads from the golden age of American smoking—say, from the flapper–ish 1920s through the cool Mad Men–era of the early sixties....
made popular Oct 21 2008
Imagine an enemy that kills one person every six seconds with non stop-killing. He is also responsible for one in 10 adult deaths worldwide, killing 5.4 million people...
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It’s been a long time since passengers have been allowed to smoke on an airliner in the United States. It’s the same story in Europe. But now the smoking crowd...
made popular Sep 29 2009
Nothing seems too draconian when it comes to discouraging the populace from puffing on tobacco. Seven years after New York instituted its ban on smoking inside clubs,...
made popular Sep 16 2009
This is a country of frazzled nerves and nicotine, where deals are struck and conspiracy theories hatched in the smokiest of rooms.
So why in the world, Iraqis...
made popular Aug 7 2009
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. The Pentagon reassured troops Wednesday that it won’t ban tobacco products in war zones. Defense officials hadn’t...
made popular Jul 17 2009
Greece will impose a tobacco ban in public places on July 1 in its third attempt in a decade to stamp out the habit in Europe’s biggest-smoking nation, the health...
made popular Jun 12 2009
While the taxes on cigarettes have been raised in years, it seems that it is not about money, but control. Experts believe that such “punitive” taxes will...
made popular Apr 22 2009
Jordanian Government has finally taken the first step towards a new clear-aired Jordan, as a new smoking ban law in public facilities is out. This is a much needed step...
made popular Mar 5 2009
The Indian government banned smoking in many public places Thursday, four years after an earlier ban was little enforced and widely ignored. The initiative came as the...
made popular Oct 3 2008
(In a lighter vein)
As we pay our homage to the father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi, on October 2 this year, smoking would turn private! That is because public...
made popular Sep 30 2008
I believe the Egyptian education system (Thanaweya Amma) is there to kill the spirit of our youth, and break them into demotivated, frustrated, hopeless young adults....
made popular Jul 19 2008
It was getting late. A few beers had been sunk, and only the stragglers remained: the time of night when strangers start randomly talking to one another. And so it was...
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The Netherlands becomes the latest European nation to ban smoking in restaurants, cafes and all public places. The difference in Holland, though, is you can still order...
made popular Jul 1 2008
A ban on smoking in most public buildings has come into force in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
made popular May 1 2008
With a lot of bad press about their apparent primitive, even deceptive, ways being piped out of Greece recently, Macedonia is trying to turn the tide and win back the...
made popular Apr 25 2008
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