News Source: The Guardian
| 2 months ago
From coast to coast, US anti-smoking programmes grow ever more agressive Photograph: Getty Images/Christopher Furlong Once America was in thrall to the Marlboro man...Or at the very least driving it from public view and turning it into something...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
NYC plans to ban smoking in public parks and outdoor spaces New York City is considering banning smoking in public parks and beaches in a bid to make New Yorkers healthier. The proposed ban comes as part of a city-wide campaign that also encourages...
News Source: The Guardian
| 2 months ago
Smokers in the "land of the free" are finding themselves increasingly less free to pursue their habit. New York City officials are the latest to consider banning smoking in their parks and outside spaces – and where the US leads, the UK often...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
A New York prosecutor says a truck driver hid his medical condition before an accident that killed two English tourists and resulted in murder charges. Ryan said Scarlett went on disability leave from one trash carting company after a May 2007...
News Source: Denver Post
| 2 months ago
New York City's workplace smoking ban six years ago drove cigarette and cigar puffers outdoors. But soon some of the outdoors might be off limits too: The city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, said Monday that he would seek to ban smoking...
News Source: Gawker
| 2 months ago
After banning smoking in bars, New York City officials are now thinking of extending their totalitarian grip to public spaces ...The move, he and his allies claim, will help reduce smoking rates, which have fallen since a ban on smoking in bars...