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The Tobacco and Vapes Bill, to ban sales of cigarettes to people born after 2008, is being debated in parliament in 2025. A smoking ban in England, making it illegal to smoke in all enclosed workplaces in England, came into force in July 2007 as a consequence of the Health Act 2006. Similar bans had already been introduced by the rest of the ...
Tobacco: From the Grower to the Smoker (4th ed, 1937), online, covers the manufacture of all forms of tobacco in United Kingdom, as well as government regulation. Taylor, Alexander G. "Tobacco retail licences and state formation in early modern England and Wales." Economic History Review 72.2 (2019): 433-458. Tinkler, Penny. Smoke Signals (2005 ...
The bill was supported by health organisations, [16] including Cancer Research UK, Action on Smoking and Health and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. [17] In an August 2024 YouGov poll, 61% of UK adults supported the efforts to phase out smoking by banning it for people born after 1 January 2009, while 27% opposed it. 81% supported ...
Since 1 June 2004, smoking has been prohibited in all indoor public areas. Outside some places this ban includes the immediate area surrounding the doorways, etc. [201] [202] [203] Advertising for tobacco has been illegal by law since 1975 (The tobacco related damage protection act). The smoking ban also includes vaping since 1 July 2017.
Smoking in cars with children under 18 was banned in the state of California in 2007, [41] and is banned in certain counties and cities of Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, New Jersey, New York, Kentucky, [42] Alabama and Illinois.
Herald-Leader investigation: Many Kentucky stores ignore law and illegally sell tobacco and vape products to minors
Numerous surveys have indicated that implementing tobacco-free policies reduces students exposure to secondhand smoke on campuses. However, in Fall of 2006 an online survey of 4,160 students from 10 different colleges found that most second hand smoke was experienced by students in restaurants/bars (65%), at home (55%) and in a car (38%), suggesting that on campus bans may be less effective.
In 2003, New York City amended its smoke-free law to include virtually all restaurants and bars, including those in private clubs, making it, along with the California smoke-free law, one of the toughest in the United States. The city's Department of Health found in a 2004 study that air pollution levels had decreased sixfold in bars and ...