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China promises "non-smoking" Olympics www.chinaview.cn 2006-05-29 17:20:22 Related: Beijing unveils plans for "green" Games BEIJING, May 29 (Xinhua) -- China, with 350 million smokers - about one third of the world's smoking population - has vowed to put on a "non-smoking" Olympic Games. Zhang Bin, an official with the Ministry of Health (MOH), said on Monday that smoking will be banned at all hospitals that will be used specifically for the Games by the end of 2007. The ban will extend to public transport and public buildings, with places that offer services to children the main concern, Zhang said. In...

"Hey, they can't smoke here!" Such was my automatic assertion as I sat in a restaurant with my husband-to-be on my first visit to Denmark. Four years on, I still decry at least every week, "Hey, they can't smoke there, can they?!" And my husband shakes his head, looks at me patiently and explains once again that this is Denmark. Danes can and will smoke anywhere they darn well please. Trains. Lobbies. Malls. Ferries. Schools. For a country that is so progressive and liberal in many ways, Denmark's lack of an operating smoking politic is quite disturbing. This world leader...

Plan targets restaurant smoke in Dallas 08/07/2002 By VICTORIA LOE HICKS / The Dallas Morning News Nonsmoking sections in Dallas restaurants would have to be smoke-free under a proposal before the City Council. The measure, drawn up by the city's Environmental Health Commission and presented Tuesday to a council committee, would require restaurants to prevent any smoke from wafting into dining areas designated as nonsmoking. The law would leave it to restaurant owners to determine how to meet the requirement. The choice of building partitions or installing special ventilation systems would be left to each owner. "This is a...

Oklahoma: Limits on smoking draw fire Oklahoma politicians say health board lacks authority to enact rules 04/08/2002 Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY - Rules that would ban smoking in most public places have sparked a turf battle between the Board of Health, which adopted them, and state lawmakers who say that the rules flout state law. But members of the Board of Health and state officials who support a ban on smoking say the issue runs deeper than the law. They say the real issue is public health. "Smoking is still so ingrained in our society that we don't think...