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PORTUGAL - ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PORTUGAL is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to ensure European Union (EU) nuclear safety standards are applied at the country’s nuclear technology institute, the Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear, which houses a research reactor.…
PART-TIME WORK
Keith Nuthall
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) survey concluding that part-time workers are less likely to report job-related health problems and are more likely to achieve a positive work-life balance is good news for UK companies. Indeed, the European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO) report says Britain has the EU’s second highest proportion of part-timers – 25 per cent of workers in 2002.…
DRIVER SLEEPINESS
BY MONICA DOBIE
NEW technology preventing drowsy drivers from crashing will be included in all Volvo cars and SUVs by the end of the decade, company officials have told the New York auto show.
The warnings include a vibrating steering wheel, the sound of a car driving over rumble strips being played to the driver and a visual warning being projected onto the windshield.…
NORWAY CIVIL RIGHTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NORWEGIAN county has struck down a smoking ban in its municipal offices, ruling that it violates the European Human Rights Convention. The decision by the governor of North Trondelag county, central Norway, has annulled a rule preventing Levanger city local government employees from smoking during working hours, on or off municipal property.…
NORTHERN IRELAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HIJACKING of a Gallaher lorry with Pounds 1 million of cigarettes on the Northern Ireland-Ireland border has prompted the company to ferry tobacco from its Ballymena plant to Dublin, via Scotland and Liverpool, Ulster Unionist MP David Burnside has claimed.…
WHO DEPENDENCE REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Heath Organisation has released a report detailing new developments in neuroscience research regarding craving, compulsive use, tolerance and dependence related to psychoactive substances, such as nicotine. The paper discusses how genes interact with environmental factors to sustain psychoactive substance-using behaviours, suggesting novel diagnostic tools and behavioural and pharmacological treatments.…
CAP REFORM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOBACCO growing subsidies in the European Union (EU) will from 2010 be completely de-linked from production, the EU Council of Ministers have decided at a special meeting on Common Agricultural Policy reform. Generally ignoring calls for restraint from the European Parliament, ministers did however decide that de-coupling should be introduced over four years from 2006, when member states can link 60 per cent of subsidies to production.…
CANADA THEFT
BY MONICA DOBIE
IMPERIAL Tobacco Canada has blamed the latest theft of over CDN$1.7 million worth of cigarettes from a Mississauga warehouse, Ontario, on increased demand for contraband tobacco because of high taxes imposed on cigarettes.…
DAMAGES BACKDATES
BY MONICA DOBIE
A FEDERAL judge has ruled that the US Justice Department can backdate claims for damages from cigarette companies before 1970. Tobacco firms had argued that the government should not use a 1970 racketeering statute to recover industry profits earned before the law was in place.…
SMOKING- DRINKING
BY MONICA DOBIE
A STUDY from the USA’s Duke University has showed that alcohol increases the pleasurable effects of nicotine, that its combination with nicotine, not the motion of smoking, stimulates the brain’s pleasure centres.…