JURY STILL OUT ON HEALTH IMPACT OF PUBLIC PLACE SMOKING BANS
December 1st, 2007
BY ANDREW CAVE
PUBLIC place smoking bans are spreading like wildlife these days, with one country after another drawing up rules preventing tobacco use where it could expose non-smokers to second-hand smoke.
In the European Union (EU), this year, public place smoking bans have been introduced in England, Estonia and Finland, for instance.
Scotland and Ireland, the first nation in the EU to take the action, were already smoke-free in public places, while Italy, Sweden and Malta have partial bans that allow smoking only in closed-off, separately-ventilated ...
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