The proposals mean all restaurants in England would be smoke-free, along with pubs and bars serving food, she added, and "non-food" pubs and bars will be free to choose whether to allow smoking, or be smoke-free.
BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Cabinet agrees England smoke ban
But cigarette packets will no longer be mini, mobile advertising boards and, for those working to reduce smoking levels, plain packaging is an important stage in the shift to a smoking-free society.
Their policy on public place smoking is that they support the creation of smoke-free areas but that a ban on all indoor smoking in work and public places goes too far.
Many missionaries become paragons of self-discipline, with their trademark white shirts and ties and a teetotalling, non-smoking, caffeine-free and abstinent Mormon work ethic.
Married and childless, Parisi spends nearly all his free time with cigars, meeting with smoking clubs, planning trips to Cuba to buy them, inspecting cigars, touching them, occasionally even smoking them.
MPs had no patience for such nuances: in a free vote on February 14th, they outlawed smoking from the summer of 2007 in all restaurants, pubs and clubs in England.
Finally, being a "smoking pariah" now, with never a day in hospital in my life, I feel that any treatment I may need in the future has long been covered by my income tax and duty paid on tobacco, so now I'm only smoking (legally obtained) duty free tobacco.
She said as well as the shelters, the trust offers staff and patients the chance to take part in smoking cessation sessions, provides special councillors and free nicotine replacement therapy.
Cassie Graham signed up for a 10-week smoking-cessation class held during one of her free periods at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax County.
As for things that prevent children from smoking, Hurt cites higher cigarette taxes and smoke-free zones, like offices and restaurants.
Why not hire them, tell them they have to get into anti-smoking programs and pay them a bonus when they stay smoke-free?
Dr Lawrence Whalley of the University of Aberdeen, who led the research, said the explanation could be that smoking causes oxidative stress - cumulative damage caused by molecules called "free radicals" - to organs including the brain.
While the study can't prove that one is related to the other, the findings would seem to support what critics have long said: Smoking by glamorous (or even not-so-glamorous) people on the silver screen is like free advertising for cigarettes.
Then, each year after implementing smoking bans (at least for the first three years, the longest period studied), smoke-free communities have an average 26 percent decline in heart attacks, compared with those areas that still allow smokers to light up in public places.
CNN: Big drop in heart attacks after smoking bans, studies say
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