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The idea seems to be that Sri Lanka will effectively ban the use of tobacco products by banning in 2020 tobacco growing along with the importation of cigarettes and tobacco.Read More
The new Premier of Ontario, Canada, has done smokers and vapers a service by putting on hold legislation that was designed by the previous-administration and that lumped vaping with smoking.Read More
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Tokyo’s new anti-tobacco ordinance is set to take effect from April 2020, just a few months before the start of the Olympics.Read More
During train journeys, the rights of non-smoking passengers outweigh those of tobacco smokers, the Beijing Railway Transport Court has decided.Read More
It seems only right that where a democratically-elected government acts in good faith to protect health, that action should not be overturned by commercial interests.Read More
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