BYRNE SPEECH
July 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Commissioner for health has caused a stir by stating the European Commission is "about to conceive a major initiative aimed at banning smoking in workplaces" throughout the 15 country EU, due to be expanded with 10 new Member States next May.David Byrne, commissioner for health policy told a tobacco conference in Helsinki (August 3rd) that passive smoking "may account for between 30,000 and 50,000 deaths every year in the European Union" and he was "determined to exploit all the possibilities that the (EU) Treaty offers" to achieve an ...
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