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  • Smoke-free law 'would save lives'

    02/08/2005 9:29:26 AM PST · by Jakarta ex-pat · 131 replies · 1,118+ views
    BBC ^ | 8/02/05
    There is powerful evidence that an outright ban on public smoking would save lives, doctors' leaders from across the world say. A report by the British Medical Association's Tobacco Control Resource Centre describes the success of such anti-smoking laws in other countries. Ireland has seen drops in cigarette sales and the US state California has reported fewer lung cancers. But pro-smoking groups called evidence for passive smoking deaths a "myth". In the recent White Paper on Public Health for England, Health Secretary John Reid announced plans for a partial ban smoking in enclosed public places. For example, while pubs that...