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A ban on smoking in public places takes effect in Macedonia on January 1 2010, but faces the customary resistance from the hospitality industry and some MPs, while in Serbia, reports suggest there will be backdown on the ban.
Those who refused to pay the 20 leva fine were taken off the trains.
The term "sin tax" has been applied to excises on tobacco and liquor. In Bulgaria, the idea of taxing smoking to the hilt seems an idea that is overripe.
Team of scientists, including a Bulgarian professor, says that sunlight worsens the carcinogenic effect of tobacco.
From July 2010 the organic logo will be obligatory on all pre-packaged organic products produced in EU member states.
The ban would affect all crops and the entire country, Environment Minister Nona Karadjova said. Now, there is a ban on some crops in parts of the country.
Land swaps, routinely carried out at prices below market valuations, making them much more profitable for the beneficiaries rather than the state, raise European Commission's suspicions about possible illegal state aid.
Hungary had put a law in force in December 2009 banning cyanide-based extraction technology and the ban should be widened across Europe.
Illegal dumping of waste continues on a significant scale, many landfill sites are sub standard and in some member states basic waste infrastructure is still missing. Illegal waste shipments are also a concern.
Some time ago they discovered that smoking during pregnancy changes baby in dna-level. If you don't care about you, you should at least care about your own kid.
70% of smokers want to quit, it really is nonsense. People say they want to quit and lie simply so as not to get into a dispute with anti smokers.
Anti-tobacco campaigners use the same made up 70% figure at the same stage of every campaign in every country. Its only a matter of time before the penny drops with anyone with any sense.
If you are a smoker, and some health professional asks you if you'd like to quit, you avoid the inevitable anti-smoking lecture if you say yes. So, all this survey really proves is that 70% of smokers don't want to be preached at!
The service company I am working for employs 52 people, aged between 19 and 58. I carried out a small internal survey and found that 41 colleagues are habitual smokers, 25 ladies and 16 men. Out of them only 4 stated that they are seriously considering to stop. With all respect for the survey of the Greenwild Foundation, as you can see my findings indicate rather different percentages.