EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR PAN-EUROPEAN PUBLIC SMOKING BAN
October 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for the European Commission to put a legislative gun to the heads of European Union (EU) member states and propose a law protecting workers from second-hand smoke, if national public place smoking bans are not introduced. In a report replying to the European Commission's green paper on public smoking issued earlier this year, MEPs called on it to designate environmental tobacco smoke a class 1 carcinogen and recommend that - within two years - Member States impose smoking bans in all enclosed workplaces, ...
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