EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAUNCHES PUBLIC SMOKING CONSULTATION
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Europe's political temperature over Brussels's potential involvement in promoting public place smoking bans across the European Union (EU). In a newly released green paper, it asks member states, local governments, businesses and non-governmental organisations to say how draconian they would like national laws on restricting smoking in offices, pubs, restaurants and the like. And it also asks "what form of EU intervention do you consider necessary?" Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou is a longtime advocate of ...
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