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Schools, hospitals and public transportation become smoke-free. The second smoking ban came into force in 1 January 2006 Spain with a partial restriction upon smoking in most public places and workplaces, but restaurants and bars could create a "smokers' section" or allow smoking if they were small (under 100m 2). Advertising of tobacco was banned.
There are approximately 120 million smokers in India. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), India is home to 12% of the world's smokers. More than 1 million people die every year due to tobacco related illnesses. [2] As of 2015, the number of men smoking tobacco in India rose to 108 million, an increase of 36%, between 1998 and 2015 ...
1973 and 2007 ABC news reports on the initial, and then the complete, indoor smoking bans in Victoria, Australia. One of the world's earliest smoking bans was a 1575 Roman Catholic Church regulation which forbade the use of tobacco in any church in Mexico. [22] In 1590, Pope Urban VII moved against smoking in church buildings. [23]
The Government of Maharashtra has banned the sale of manufactured chewing tobacco, including Mawa in July 2015. [11] [12] Mawa is prohibited in Pakistan. [13] [14] The Greater Chennai Police confiscated over 30 kg of banned tobacco, including 22 kg of gutkha and 9 kg of Mawa in February 2023. [15]
The tobacco control field comprises the activity of disparate health, policy and legal research and reform advocacy bodies across the world. These took time to coalesce into a sufficiently organised coalition to advance such measures as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the first article of the first edition of the Tobacco Control journal suggested that ...
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Statewide smoking ban: On May 1, 2007, the Smoke Free Arizona Act (Proposition 201) went into effect after passage by 54.7% of voters the prior November, banning smoking in all enclosed workplaces and within 20 feet (6.1 m) of an entrance or exit of such a place, including bars and restaurants, only exempting private residences, retail tobacco ...
California enacted a workplace smoking ban in 1994, and a complete smoking ban in enclosed spaces in 1998. Florida made a workplace smoking ban part of its state constitution in 2002. [1] Washington state passed initiative 901 by referendum in 2005, banning smoking within 25 feet of public buildings or places of employment. [2]