Man charged with assault, smoking on aircraft
Police on Wednesday charged a man after he assaulted a flight attendant who told him off for lighting a cigarette while disembarking an airplane that...
Smoking ban
Limassol company entices smokers to quit with five extra days holiday
A company in Limassol, Exclusive Capital, has taken the unusual step of offering five extra days of paid annual leave to those who quit smoking....
Thailand bans smoking, littering at popular tourist beaches
Thailand banned smoking and littering at 24 beachside locations that are popular with tourists over environmental concerns on Thursday, the ministry of natural resources and...
Austria to drop impending smoking ban, bucking Western trend
While much of the West has barred smoking in restaurants and bars, Austria’s impending ban is set to be stubbed out. The small, affluent country...
Police rebuked for going too easy on smoking ban
THE Auditor-general has admonished the police for carrying out fewer checks last year on places defying the smoking ban than they did the year...
Health ministry campaign publicises new smoking regulations
Around 31 per cent of the population smoke, and the cost of tobacco-related illness amounts to about €2,000 for each smoker, or three per...
Our View: No reason for smoking law to have sparked such an outcry
It was difficult to understand why the new smoking law approved by just one vote by the legislature on Friday sparked such an angry reaction...
Harsher smoking ban upsets bar, lounge owners
OWNERS of entertainment centres such as restaurants, lounges and bars, were unhappy on Thursday with the cabinet-approved bill that bans smoking in public buildings and...
MPs told to stop smoking in parliament
By Evie Andreou House speaker Yiannakis Omirou has sent a letter to all MPs warning them to stop smoking in parliament. In the letter, which...
China launches campaign to snuff out smoking in Beijing
By Megha Rajagopalan and Joseph Campbell Red-uniformed volunteers, propaganda banners and no-smoking signs sprinkled China’s capital city on Monday as Beijing unrolled ambitious new curbs...
Lawyers warned not to flout smoking-ban law in court buildings
The Nicosia Bar Association has sent a letter to members warning them not to smoke inside court buildings after a one lawyer was reported to...
MPs under fire for smoking in parliament
By Constantinos Psillides THE ANTI-CANCER Society has taken MPs to task for smoking inside the parliament building, after receiving a number of reports saying that...