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A.C. considers delaying casino smoking ban Posted in Entertainment, News on October 6th, 2008 at 2:14 pm by BCT managing editor Gary Lindenmuth |   From the Associated Press: With the economy crumbling and revenues plunging, Atlantic City is considering delaying the start of a total smoking ban at its 11 casinos.

And here is the link to the studies he refers to. Filed under: anti insanity, health issues, reality check | Tagged: smoking, health issues, smoking ban, Health, reality check

Worst. Law. Ever. Oct 5th, 2008 by jerseym. 3 comments Look, we’ve all had this discussion before. For years, really. And I still say the same thing. Smoking cigarettes is bad for you. And the toxic second hand smoke which exits a smokers lips and fills the air of wherever he or she is smoking is nearly just as bad for the people whom are subjected to breathing in that toxic smoke.

thefamilygp asked: Sian Welby talks to Dr Chris Steele about the addictive and harmful effects of nicotine. Dr Chris explains that nicotine is, milligram for milligram, more addictive than heroin and cocaine. Within 7 seconds of drawing on a cigarette the nicotine will be acting on the brain.

The Eau Claire Ministry of State Security, er, I mean the Eau Claire Ministry of Public Health has punished a local tavern after police observed illegal smoking on the premsis. The police weren’t looking for smoking, but after they observed the illegal activity they dutifully reported the offending establishment to the overseeing authority for proper processing.

Reuters video, India’s smoking ban India is the rare large country where smoking is still growing, and its 240 million smokers make it the world’s third largest market, but smokers now face fines for smoking in any public areas, part of the government’s efforts to reduce the one-in-five smoking

Governments everywhere are banning smoking in public places even though they always seem quite happy to keep tobacco legal so that they can still collect taxes. India has imposed the world’s biggest smoking ban by forbidding its 1.2 billion people from lighting up in public places.

Governments everywhere are banning smoking in public places even though they always seem quite happy to keep tobacco legal so that they can still collect taxes. India has imposed the world’s biggest smoking ban by forbidding its 1.2 billion people from lighting up in public places.

Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss says he aims to cut the number of smokers and to protect passive smokers from the harmful effects of tobacco.

‘Cigarette in my hand, I felt like a man.’ This notion is now going to change forever, because on October 2, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss enforced a complete ban on smoking in public places. Now one could end up getting fined for smoking in airports, railway stations, cinema halls and even office