Jessica Miller | December 22, 2011
When the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act went into effect, several bar and casino owners in Great Falls saw a 25% drop in business. Now, Great Falls company M.C. Inc. believes that it’s found a solution that allows comfortable smoking rooms which comply with state law – but public health officials don’t see it that way. After two years of cutting expenses and barely breaking even, the owners of M.C. Inc. have found a way to cater to their smoking clientele and get the business back on track.
Category: anti-smoking regulation, Indoor Smoking Ban |
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Jessica Miller | November 25, 2011
The Brazilian Congress has passed a bill banning smoking in enclosed public places nationwide. Smoking bans are already in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other big cities. The new law goes one step further. It makes illegal designated smoking rooms in airports and bars that exist even in those places with a ban already in place. It also raises taxes on tobacco products and is forcing a minimum price on the products, increasing costs for consumers by up to 55 percent within four years.
Category: Indoor Smoking Ban, smoking ban |
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Jessica Miller | November 24, 2011
Finding young people at a public meeting isn’t the first thing you’d expect on a Wednesday afternoon. Many, however, had personal reasons to weigh in about Lambton County’s proposed smoke-free public outdoor spaces bylaw. Lambton County’s Community Health Services Department is holding public consultations to gauge public opinion about a smoking ban for municipally owned and operated spaces, such as playgrounds, beaches and outside arenas.
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Jessica Miller | November 23, 2011
The government is preparing to raise tobacco tax, to be introduced after the ban on indoor smoking discount Armada cigarettes comes into effect from January 1, secretary for Economy and Finance, Francis Tam Pak Yuen, said yesterday at the Legislative Assembly. In Macau, the tobacco tax was last updated in 2009 and is currently at MOP 0.2 per cigarette or MOP 4 per 20-cigarette pack. But the Health Bureau has promised to increase this figure, lawmaker Ng Kuok Cheong recalled.
Category: Indoor Smoking Ban, Tobacco tax |
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Jessica Miller | November 21, 2011
A Middlesex-London Health Unit board plan to ban smoking discount Doina cigarettes in public places has some Richmond Row bars crying foul. Owners and managers say the rules, approved by the health board Thursday and now bound for city council, would put them through the ringer, yet again. Establishments already have shelled out a lot of money in the past eight years to get in line with new smoking regulations, they said. “(We all) spent money to come up to compliance,” Garth Brophy, manager at Barney’s, said about the city’s 2003 ban on indoor smoking. “When the provincial law went through (in 2005), some of that money had to be spent again to change our format to meet the provincial standards.”
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