INFLUENTIAL EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE URGES CRACK DOWN ON PUBLIC SMOKING
September 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament's influential environment committee has pushed for a formal European Union (EU)-wide ban on smoking in public places. Backing a report drafted by German Christian democrat MEP Karl-Heinz Florenz, MEPs called on all member states within two years to support an unrestricted smoking ban in all enclosed workplaces, catering establishments, public buildings and transport systems. The report follows up a European Commission green paper "Towards a Europe free from tobacco smoke: policy options at EU level", and will be ...
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