By Join Together Staff February 14, 2012 Leave a comment Filed in Legislation, Prevention & Tobacco

Smoking bans in public places such as restaurants and offices lead people to smoke less at home, a new European study concludes.

The study included 4,600 smokers in four countries with smoke free laws France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands, as well as 1,080 smokers in Britain, at a time when that country had no public smoke free laws.

The study found that before smoke free laws went into effect in those four countries, most smokers had at least partial restrictions on smoking in their homes. After the laws went into effect, the percentage of smokers who did not allow smoking in their home rose by 38 percent in Germany, 28 percent in the Netherlands, 25 percent in Ireland and 17 percent in France, Reuters reports.

In contrast, the percentage of smokers who banned smoking in their homes did not significantly increase in Britain.

Some critics of laws that ban smoking in public places argue that they will encourage people to smoke more at home, possibly increasing the exposure of children to secondhand smoke, the article notes. Researcher Ute Mons of the German Cancer Research Center said the study suggested the opposite is true. “On the contrary, our findings demonstrate that smoke free legislation may stimulate smokers to establish total smoking bans in their homes,” she wrote in the journal Tobacco Control.

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New tobacco directive turns blind eye on e-cigarettes

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This information held in this article is incorrect.

It states ” The compromise stipulates that e cigarettes will be considered like regular tobacco products if they contain nicotine in a concentration of more than 20 mg/ml.”

In actual fact it states only Ecigarettes of 20mg/ml and below will be allowed on the market and will be treated like tobacco but with more severe restraints on the ability to speak about them. In actual fact the proposal directly denies the freedom of speech on them in as much as all forms of communication whether public or private, industry led or consumer led will be prohibited by law if it speaks favourably about them.

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5. Member States shall ensure that

a) commercial communications with the aim or direct or indirect effect of promoting electronic cigarettes and refill containers are prohibited in information society services as defined in Article 1(2) of Directive 98/48/EC, in the press and other printed publications, with the exception of publications that are intended exclusively for professionals in the trade of the products and for publications which are printed and published in third countries, where those publications are not principally intended for the European Union market

b) commercial communications with the aim or direct or indirect effect of promoting electronic cigarettes and refill containers are prohibited in the radio

c) any form of public or private contribution to radio programmes with the aim or direct or indirect effect of promoting electronic cigarettes and refill containers is prohibited

d) any form of public or private contribution to any event, activity or individual with the aim or direct or indirect effect of promoting electronic cigarettes and refill containers and involving or taking place in several Member States or otherwise having cross border effects is prohibited

e) audiovisual commercial communications falling under Directive 2010/13/EU are prohibited for electronic cigarettes and refill containers

f) cross border distance sales of electronic cigarettes and refill containers are regulated in accordance with Article 16.

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In allowing freedom of speech on virtually every substance, political opinion and activity known to man, we are able to promote democracy, freedom and equal rights to all.

By denying that right to anyone who uses or advocates using Electronic cigarettes which have not harmed a single human being and are regarded by many public health advocates as a potential public health game changer the EU is denying the human rights of millions of European citizens.

Anyone who supports this is selling human rights to freedom of speech down the river.