Press releases
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Less than a third of the EU Member States have introduced fully comprehensive smokefree legislation, three years after the world’s first public health treaty on tobacco control – the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) – introduced the need for protecting employees from the dangerous effects of second-hand smoke.
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A straw poll has today (Wednesday, 6th June 2007) revealed that nearly half of respondent MEPs support the building of smoking rooms in the European Parliament’s buildings at the tax payers’ expense – according to the Smokefree Partnership (SFP)
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More than 200 million people worldwide will be fully protected from secondhand smoke at work and in public places by July 1, 2007, according to a report published today (May 31). The report concludes that the dramatic success of smokefree laws makes it inevitable that comprehensive smokefree air legislation will be introduced worldwide, including in all European Countries.
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MEPs meeting in Brussels today pledged themselves to pursue a low cost, low tech product reform that is set to save thousands of lives across Europe.
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A new EU campaign to introduce self-extinguishing cigarettes and help
prevent 1,000 deaths and 13m euros of damage caused by smoking-related fires across Europe every year is to be launched today (Wednesday 28 February) in Brussels.
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On Monday 12th February, the European Parliament Bureau voted 14 to 1 to scrap recently introduced provisions banning smoking in its premises. The rules were introduced in all the Parliament buildings in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on 1 January 2007 as a result of a 2004 case to the European Ombudsman who found that the Parliament was failing to protect the health of its staff.
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Brussels, 10 January 2007 - Some of Europe’s leading health organisations today criticised a meeting called by British American Tobacco to sell its social reporting strategy in the European Parliament.
