World's first smoking ban

De: Mr. Kawaldip Sehmi [mailto:sehmi@globalink.org] Enviada em: quinta-feira, 7 de setembro de 2006 08:34Para: GLK CessationAssunto: [GLOBALink] World's first call on Smoiking Ban not 1987 BUT in 1968- by QUITUK!

Like the "World" Series in Baseball and Basketball is not truly World, I just wanted to correct the posting that the World's first smoking ban was called in 1987 and in the US.In 1968 QUIT UKs founders, who went under the name of National Society of Non-Smokers, called for a ban on smoking in public places. The offical papers that came out under the Freedom of Information Act show that this went down like a lead balloon. We were called militant fanatics!SEE REPORT BELOWSource: Financial Times (uk), 2005-01-04Author: David Turner and Bob Sherwood :"Thirty-six years ago a society that called for a ban on smoking in public places was branded "militant, even fanatical" by a senior civil servant working in a Labour administration. The government files were made public under the new Freedom of Information Act, which came into force on January 1."