Mr Kyprianou sketched a number of options for increasing the use of smoke-free zones.
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Eventually it would like to see a smoke-free society, Health Minister Lesley Griffiths said.
In the north-west of England there are a number of parks that have gone smoke-free.
He was also well-known for his work around tobacco, calling for a "smoke-free" society.
Researchers studied the impact of smoke-free ordinances implemented in Pueblo, Colorado, in July 2003.
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Professor Jamrozik said the most crucial move was to introduce smoke-free policies in public places and workplaces.
The authors say there is growing evidence that many people are opting for smoke-free homes as well.
And in Zambia, they say that British American Tobacco has helped to dilute proposals for a smoke-free law.
The first pub in the chain to become totally smoke-free earlier this month was the Rushbrooke Arms in Bury St Edmunds.
But the authors of this study say there is growing evidence that more people are insisting on smoke-free homes.
Federal housing officials are trying to help people like Lizica -- and his neighbors -- by making public housing smoke-free.
As for things that prevent children from smoking, Hurt cites higher cigarette taxes and smoke-free zones, like offices and restaurants.
Prior to the smoke-free law much of the debate on the legislation centred on protection of bar workers from passive smoke.
Why not hire them, tell them they have to get into anti-smoking programs and pay them a bonus when they stay smoke-free?
By 1988, smoking was banned on U.S. flights two hours or less, and 10 years later, all U.S. carrier flights became smoke-free.
Public places and most workplaces were first to introduce smoke-free rules in 2006, followed by restaurants in 2007 and bars serving food in 2010.
There was a sharp fall in the number of children admitted to hospital with severe asthma after smoke-free legislation was introduced in England, say researchers.
The organisation says that in Kenya, for example, the tobacco industry has issued a legal challenge to a strong smoke-free law passed by the parliament.
We are already hard at work on our efforts to champion the passage of smoke-free legislation in Texas next year and are hopeful about its chances.
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Similarly, researchers from Lund University in Sweden found toxic substances in the air of a smoky room were 120 times higher than in a smoke-free room.
Smoking has become engrained into the culture in many institutions caring for people with mental health problems and making them totally smoke-free environments should be a priority, it concluded.
These findings reinforce evidence on the impact of smoke-free legislation from studies in North America and Scotland, which also showed a fall in hospital admissions for children with severe asthma attacks.
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.
Work with councils to introduce smoke-free policies for playgrounds.
It says the companies try to convince African governments that tobacco is important to economic activity and that raising taxes on cigarettes and implementing smoke-free laws will result in revenue and job-losses.
As well as being at increased risk of a series of respiratory conditions, the lungs of children who breathe in passive smoke may also develop more slowly than children who grow up in smoke-free homes.
All the experience in San Francisco, New York, Dublin and elsewhere - cities and countries who have been brave enough to take this decision - is that members of the public enforce smoke-free areas themselves.
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.
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The Pueblo Heart Study found that although 399 people were hospitalized for heart attacks before any smoke-free laws went into effect, that number dropped to 237 three years after the law's introduction, a 41 percent decline.
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