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Greece attempts to curb...

01st September, 2010
In an effort to reduce Greece’s high smoking rates, smoking in enclosed public spaces was banned on 1 September 2010. If caught doing smoking in these areas, offenders will be fined €10,000. The campaign will include the prohibition of tobacco advertising and the distribution...
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UK: Drop in teenage smo...

19th August, 2010
Research conducted by University College London and published in the journal Addiction has found that the number of 16- and 17-year-old smokers has dropped since it became illegal to sell cigarettes to under-18s in the UK. Researchers found the number of smokers dropped by 7 per cent,...
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2010 Louise Lown Heart ...

18th August, 2010
The 2010 Louise Lown Heart Hero Award was this year awarded to the Olavarria: Tobacco Free City programme. Olavarria is a city in the centre of the Buenos Aires province. The programme is a city-run, community-focused tobacco advocacy, education and support scheme, which was started...
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Australia: plain packag...

04th August, 2010
Australia has revealed plans to be the first nation to outline plans to force tobacco companies to use plain packaging with graphic health warnings. The initiative is scheduled for 1 July 2012, from which point tobacco products will have to be sold in the plain packaging with few...
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HELP campaign wins awar...

04th July, 2010
At the EACA (European Association of Communications Agencies) Care Awards ceremony that took place in Brussels on 23 June 2010, the European Commission’s 2009-2010 ‘HELP, for a life without tobacco’ campaign was recognised as the top social marketing campaign for...
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Second-hand smoke heart...

23rd June, 2010
A study by University College London of more than 13,000 people in England and Scotland has added to the growing body of evidence that indicate a relationship between second-hand tobacco smoke and cardiovascular disease. Researcher Dr Mark Hamer said the findings showed that those...
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Heart attack admissions...

10th June, 2010
A team of researchers in Bath have suggested that the smoking ban is responsible for the 1,200 fewer hospital admissions for heart attacks in England in the year after July 2007, when the smoking ban came into effect. The researchers said that even a modest drop in the number of hospital...
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World No Tobacco Day su...

01st June, 2010
31 May 2010 was World No Tobacco Day. The theme was ‘Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women’, and there is evidence to suggest that this topic is current and highly relevant. The differences in tobacco use and awareness of tobacco marketing by sex were examined...
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South Korea: fines for ...

27th May, 2010
 The Seoul Metropolitan Government will start imposing fines on smokers who smoke in public places such as parks, bus stops, and school zones.  The fines could reach up to 100,000 won (US$97).  A city official said: ‘We will protect citizens from the harm of passive smoking...
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Anti-smoking media posi...

09th May, 2010
  Mego Lien, Communication Associate at the World Lung Foundation (WLF), said both smokers and non-smokers in Vietnam had responded to clear messages about the dangers posed to health by smoking and second-hand smoke. Lien was speaking at a meeting in Hanoi on 5May between WLF, Vietnam’s...
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