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UK debates tough anti-smoking law
Published on 16/04/2024
» LONDON - British lawmakers were preparing to vote on Tuesday on a proposal by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to ban anyone aged 15 and under from ever buying cigarettes.
New Zealand repeals landmark anti-smoking law
Published on 29/02/2024
» New Zealand has repealed landmark tobacco legislation that would have made it illegal for people born after Jan 1, 2009 to buy cigarettes.
Doctors warn of New Zealand health tragedy after smoking ban scrapped
AFP, Published on 28/11/2023
» WELLINGTON - Doctors blasted New Zealand’s conservative government on Tuesday for revoking world-leading anti-smoking laws, warning that people will die over the act of "public health vandalism".
Incoming New Zealand govt to abandon anti-smoking laws
AFP, Published on 27/11/2023
» WELLINGTON: New Zealand's incoming conservative government will jettison world-leading measures to stub out smoking, new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon confirmed Monday, in a move described by health campaigners as a "huge win for the tobacco industry".
Spain battles ganja gangs
Published on 28/06/2023
» BARCELONA: Heavily armed police officers arrived in a well-to-do Barcelona suburb before dawn to raid a two-storey house that turned out to be packed with 800 marijuana plants growing under powerful lamps.
Amsterdam bans outdoor pot smoking in red-light district
Published on 12/05/2023
» AMSTERDAM: The city of Amsterdam is banning outdoor marijuana smoking in its famed red-light district.
Amsterdam at war over 'erotic centre' plan
AFP, Published on 11/04/2023
» AMSTERDAM - The atmosphere was tense as residents confronted Amsterdam's mayor on a controversial plan to move legal prostitution from the city's historic red light district to a suburban "erotic centre".
Amsterdam to rowdy Brits: ‘Stay away’
Published on 29/03/2023
» AMSTERDAM: Amsterdam has launched a campaign to discourage tourists planning drug- and alcohol-fuelled parties — starting with young British men.
Gas cooking linked to 12.7% of childhood asthma in US: study
AFP, Published on 07/01/2023
» PARIS - Cooking with gas indoors has been linked to 12.7 percent of all childhood asthma cases in the United States, a new study has found, comparing its effect on health to that of second-hand smoking.
Hubble-bubble trouble: Hookah ban leaves Malians divided
AFP, Published on 24/08/2022
» BAMAKO - "Shisha-abana," exclaims Bilal, a grocer in Mali's capital Bamako, in the national language Bambara: "Shisha is finished."