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Experts optimistic Turkey can ban smoking
Speaking last week in Istanbul as a July 19 deadline approaches banning tobacco from public spaces, Sylviane Ratte, a tobacco control expert with the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, said Turkey will eventually become smoke-free if, like France, leaders follow a set and certain path, Today's Zaman reported Sunday.
"Turkey will be the best example for the world with its two-year journey to enact and implement the law," she said, stating that skepticism abounded in 1991 when France took its first steps to ban smoking in closed areas. But, she said, advocates overcame opposition from the tobacco industry to become smoke-free in public areas.
"The tobacco industry tried to stop the process by arguing that this was legislation against the right to smoke, turning the ban into a human rights issue. This is a habit that kills and has nothing to do with human rights," Ratte said.
"There is a great political will to impose the ban (in Turkey)," Stephen Hamill of the World Lung Foundation told the newspaper.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 06/28/2009
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07-01-2009 02:56
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their spouces will have no burnth bedding ,stains on their teeth,fingers, their breath wil smell better. the upside is maybe no CANCER of the through or other parts of their body. Itaffect peop;e with breathing problems, not having the smell.
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