Smoking bans catch.The antismoking an·ti·smok·ing adj. Opposed to or prohibiting the smoking of tobacco, especially in public: an antismoking campaign; an antismoking ordinance. movement is gaining ground in Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). , where smoking has been as much a personal statement as a habit. In January, IreLand is expected to become the first European country to ban smoking in pubs. Norway and the NetherLands plan to ban smoking in bars and restaurants. "There is momentum on this issue," says Tom Power of the Office of Tobacco Control in Ireland. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's recent ban on smoking in bars and restaurants has prompted ridicule in parts of Europe, which still tags behind the U.S. in getting smokers to quit. [A third of European adults smoke, versus about a quarter in the U.S.] But in some respects, Europe is already tougher on tobacco than the U.S. In Western Europe, blunt government warnings have cropped up on cigarette packages. The messages, printed to cover 30 to 40 percent of the packs, say things like, "Smoking Kilts" or "Smoking May Cause a Stow Stow (stō), city (1990 pop. 27,702), Summit co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Akron; settled 1802, inc. as a city 1960. Chiefly residential, it has some light industry. and Painful Death." |
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