Tanzania and Uganda have banned smoking in public places and countries like Ghana, Kenya and Mauritius have ratified the WHO tobacco control treaty, which promises to increase tax on tobacco sales, introduce smoking bans and reduce tobacco production.
Indeed, such a system wouldn't be out of place in the world of Minority Report, where iris scanners are everywhere and used not just for security, but to identify individuals in public places and deliver advertisements or messages tailored specifically for them.
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He attributed the downward trend to efforts convincing kids and adults not to smoke, as well as policies that restrict smoking in public places and tax cigarettes.
Over the long term, some new problems could crop up for Big Tobacco, including social and pollitical change, with the likes of Bloomberg and the Gates Foundation working alongside with the World Health Organization to ban smoking in public places and to increase awareness of the health risks involved.
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Outside the courts, the industry is also fighting legislators' moves to restrict advertising and smoking in public places, as more and more medical studies reveal the dangers of passive smoking.
"Everyday, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in Wales avoid public spaces and places where they feel they can't express themselves, " said Stonewall Cymru director Alison Parken.
The numbers are easily exaggerated -- nobody knows how many people are watching in groups or in public places -- and the Web has complicated matters further.
We eat in public places and expect to avoid life-threatening illnesses from mishandled food.
The initiative aims to increase the number of defibrillators in public places and offer CPR training.
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Professor Jamrozik said the most crucial move was to introduce smoke-free policies in public places and workplaces.
Wash your hands, especially after you've been in public places and touched handrails, grocery-cart handles, and other frequently handled objects.
Rules on displaying hot tubs in shops and public places should be reviewed, according to a report into a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.
They have a hard time with seeing women in public places and I do think that Hillary Clinton, this election, did a lot to change that perception.
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.
Labradors, golden retrievers, and retriever cross breeds were the types of dog most likely to be attacked, with most of the incidents taking place in public places and in daylight hours between 0900 and 1500 hours.
"As promised in Labour's manifesto, the Health Bill will include a ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces and public places which will cover 99% of the workforce, " she said in a statement.
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In Gaza hundreds of posters of Mr Abbas with a black X across his face appeared in public places, and relatives of the victims of the winter's military operation were throwing shoes at his picture, a reference to the shoe hurled in contempt at the then American president, George Bush, in Iraq.
The bill also requires people to control dogs when they are in their own homes and not just in public places.
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Visitors should stay alert and on guard in public places since pickpocketing, robberies, carjackings, assaults and ATM scamming are common in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
For example he turns theft into a way of distributing art: he puts up posters of his paintings in public places, and soon they're gone.
America has become a country that routinely hunts down and kills individual terrorist enemies overseas - apparently now in preference to capturing and detaining them indefinitely - and its citizens put up with more burdensome security restrictions in transportation and in public places than before, as well as with a somewhat less constricted system of domestic electronic surveillance.
Despite faster emergency squads, deployment of automated defibrillators at airports and other public places, and improvements in cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, fewer than 10% of the 300, 000 Americans who suffer cardiac arrest each year survive long enough to leave the hospital a rate that hasn't budged much over the years.
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It is apparent that many in the media, the public, and most disturbingly, in high places in government do not understand this distinction - or are using it for political leverage.
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Beyond that, it may mean very little, since doing things like taking photos and video of people in public places is already possible with virtually any mobile phone 0n the market and has been for years.
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Professor Canter recommended that the person being stalked should put various security measures in place, such as ensuring their home is secure and that they travel in public places.
The Chinese government has recently decreed a ban on smoking in all public places, workplaces and on public transportation.
All around the world, jokes that might upset oppressed minorities are being told less often, and in less public places.
The charity said on Wednesday that staff in public places are impatient and sometimes rude and not enough films are shown with subtitles.
The awards recognize the achievements of private sector, and public-private initiatives in successfully restoring structures, places and properties of heritage value in the region.
Last year, smoking was banned in public places in India and a ban imposed on tobacco firms' advertising in and sponsoring of sporting events.
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