A new squabble has broken out between the food and hospitality industry and the provincial government over Ontario’s smoking regulations. Smoking is banned in all public places in this province, including restaurants, bars and bingo halls. But there are cries of protest following a decision to allow the building of smoking shelters at a couple [...]

Getting rid of indoor smoking in prisons is about as popular as replacing jelly-filled donuts with cold gruel in the chow hall. A review team told Gov. Ted Strickland that the new state law banning indoor smoking is among the five most controversial regulations in the prison system. Though a ban has been in place [...]

After the City Council voted 6-3 in favor of an anti-smoking measure, Bangor, Maine will become the first city to ban smoking in a motor vehicle when children under the age of 18 are present. Although similar statewide measures have been adopted in Arkansas and Louisiana, Bangor is the first city to adopt such an [...]

Oregon State University researchers have found that tobacco company-sponsored anti-smoking advertisements aimed at the youth not only have no negative effect on teen smoking, they may actually encourage youngsters to smoke. The study shows that tobacco industry-sponsored prevention ads aimed at parents often have harmful effects on students, also increasing their likelihood of smoking.“We suspected [...]

Nevada’s passage of a ballot measure that will chase smokers out of slot machine sections at supermarkets, gas stations and convenience stores, and from bars that serve food is part of an evolution from a frontier state in which anything goes into an urbanized society, analysts say. Eric Herzik, a political science professor at the [...]