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Posted on Tuesday, March 28 @ 08:52:13 EST by samantha
 
 
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(Google Translation)
Smokers: The war is in progress
27. 27. juli 2009
Jacob Wenzel
 There is open war among smokers and nonsmokers, says Denmark's Smoke Association who believe that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking.
 Denmark Smoke Association believes that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking.
 Denmark Smoke Association sees the trend to more complaints about smoke from neighbors as the latest battle in the war between smokers and nonsmokers.  They believe that anti-smoking debate the nature of a real war, and according to spokesman Soren Højbjerg association is ready for war and will win it.
 But it is clear that tenants are in panic and complain that his neighbor smokes when both interest groups, politicians and the media blowing the threat of passive smoking up to unrealistic heights, said the association.
 "I think this is not strange for the news and the newspapers are full of stories of how dangerous passive smoking is, and it's clear that people are starting to become interested in it," says Soren Højbjerg to Newspaq.
 He responded to it has emerged that more and more tenants complain that neighbor smoke seeps into their apartment.  But the association casts doubt as to whether passive smoking is really so dangerous that most anti-smokers claim.
 Among others, the French tobacco research and smoking cessation specialist, Professor Robert Molimard has also announced that the only people who are at risk of smoking is smokers themselves. In Denmark it is estimated that 2,000 people die each year from passive smoke.  But the figures are totally blown out of proportion, said the researcher.
 Anti-tobacco lobby, for example, consists of the Heart Association and Cancer Society, counting both smokers and former smokers even with the stats show . According to him, the real death toll from passive smoking in Denmark closer to a round zero.
 Soren Højbjerg may well understand that you can be bothered by the smell when you are not themselves smoke.  But on the other hand, one can not expect that you will never feel anything from a neighbor.
 When you live in an apartment, so in fact share a property with other people. Somewhere, then we are forced to find themselves in the neighbor's activities can sneak in for a while. Especially if it is an older building, "says the rygerforkæmperen.
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Sweet toothed smokers could pay for proposed tax reform
24.02.09
Duties on luxury goods and unhealthy foods could rise as part of a government overhaul of the taxation system The government announced it wants to increase charges on tobacco, candy and saturated fats as part of its tax reform.
The government announced it wants to increase charges on tobacco, candy and saturated fats as part of its tax reform Under the planned tax reforms the government has announced increased duties on cigarettes, candy and ice cream in a bid to help us live healthier.
The increased duties are expected to fatten the state coffers by an extra 1.45 billion kroner.
The duty will be raised by 3 kroner for a pack of 20 cigarettes, while rolled tobacco will be levied by 120 kroner per kilogram.
Ice cream, candy and chocolate will see a duty increase of 25 percent, while saturated fats in dairy products and oils will be levied at 20 kroner per kilo.
Health Minister Jacob Axel Nielsen welcomed the move and hoped it would help curb the prevalence of lifestyle illnesses like heart disease and diabetes, which can be caused by over consumption of sugars and fat.
Nielsen stressed that the level of smoking among Danes must also be reduced, with almost a fourth of all deaths annually linked to smoking.
'The increased prices will help people to quit smoking, and most importantly help young people to make the right decision never to being smoking to start with.'
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Parties want to drop cigarette warnings
What were supposed to be terrifying warnings on cigarette packets seem to have the opposite effect. Several parties want to get rid of them.
October 20, 2008
Warnings on cigarette packets such as ‘Smoking can kill’ or ‘Smoking is very harmful to you and your surroundings’ were supposed to get people to stop smoking. But according to new marketing research, they have precisely the opposite effect, according to dr.dk.
Want to smoke
In fact according to research, the warnings give consumers more of a wish to smoke. A Danish marketing guru Martin Lindstrøm has tested the brains of several thousand consumers and found that the warnings are associated with pleasure – because the smoker associates the warning with something pleasant that is about to happen – smoking.
As a result, the junior coalition partner the Conservative People’s Party and the government’s parliamentary safety net the Danish People’s Party want to have the warnings removed again.
Health Minister
“First of all I will be discussing this with the minister for health who is the one who goes to the meetings in the European U nion – and this is an EU issue,” says Conservative Health Spokesperson Vivi Kier.
The research method used by Lindstrøm is revolutionary in marketing in that it makes it possible to determine how to stimulate parts of the brain so that consumers want to buy a product without realising that what they see is an advertisement.
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Commission calls for more bans to protect public health
29.07.08
The Ministry of Health's prevention commission wants tougher bans and higher taxes to protect the public's health The Ministry of Health's prevention commission was formed with the task of investigating how the average Danish life span could be extended by...
With an average life expectancy of 79 years, Danish women lag behind their peers in other Western countries. Comparative figures from the State Institute for Public Health show that Denmark lies in 20th position.
The institute wants to introduce measures that will cut the number of so-called lifestyle illnesses brought about by smoking, drinking, bad diet and too little exercise. These account for around 40 percent of all illnesses and early deaths in Denmark.
The commission told Berlingske Tidende newspaper that it would like to see a total ban on smoking in sports clubs and schools. It also wants the government to levy a higher tax on cigarettes and only make them available for purchase in certain outlets, such as pharmacies.
It recommends that the government introduce further bans and restrictions, which will extend the lifespan of Danes.
'Experience from many countries shows us that these measures work quickly and effectively and can bring about a drop in heart-related diseases, for example. Danish politicians have always been worried about how far they can go with relation to the population, even though everything indicated that people would soon be happy with this kind of initiative,' said the commission's chairperson Mette Weir.
The Liberal Party spokesperson Brigitte Josefsen said that they were open to tightening the current smoking ban, but were not sure of the concrete proposals put forward by the commission.
'We cannot remove personal responsibility totally,' Josefsen said.
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The nation that up until a few years ago had one of the most relaxed attitudes towards smoking is now ready to force smokers even further into a corner
07.07.2008
After resisting smoking bans while other European and North American implemented increasingly strict restrictions on lighting up indoors, Danes are ready to enact bans against outdoor smoking in public places, according to a poll carried out by weekly publication Mandag Morgen.
Nearly a year after a national ban on smoking in all indoor workplaces - including bars and restaurants - went into effect, the poll found 46 percent of Danes favour a ban against smoking in outdoor areas such as sidewalk cafés. Thirty-six percent said they were against such a measure.
Concerns about the effects of second-hand smoke were the primary reason many supported the ban.
Inge Hanustrup Clemmensen of the Danish Cancer Society said that even though studies show second-hand smoke present a health hazard, an outdoor smoking ban was neither practical nor necessary.
'I'd rather see people show courtesy and not smoke in places where there are a lot of people gathered. The poll shows that people don't want to be bothered by smoke outside, and it would be best if it became a custom that you just don't expose others to second-hand smoke.'
Fact file | Smoking in Denmark
- The most recent revisions to laws against smoking in indoor public places went into effect on 15 August 2007.
- Smoking is banned in the vast majority of indoor public spaces
- The 2007 law specifically names workplaces, hospitals, schools, childcare centres and taxis as areas where smoking is not permitted
- Bars measuring less than 40m2 that do not serve food are exempt from the ban
- According to recent estimates 25 percent of Danes over 13 years smoke every day
- 12,000 Danes die annually from smoking-related illnesses (km)
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Ban damage: MP attacked when outside smoking.
In August 2007 Denmark banned smoking in most indoor publicly accesible places. On May 8, an MP was attacked while smoking outside a smoking banned tavern. “There were a couple of bums on a bench. One of them jumped to his feet, exclaiming 'What the devil, is that you'? And then it hailed down on me with a series of hard fist punches” explains Mr Jesper Langballe, MP.

MP from right-of-centre party attacked
By The Copenhagen Post
Published 09.05.08 00:00

MP Jesper Langballe of the Danish People's Party was attacked last night, according to a police statement., reports public broadcaster DR. He did not wish to report the incident to the police, but after a party meeting this morning, his group insisted on turning the case over to the police. (LYT)


In local language news:





Demonstration at Danish Cancer Society
On April 5, 2008, a group of dedicted smokers held a demonstration outside The Danish Cancer Society Headquarters, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme of the demonstration was “We are not quitting”. The demonstration was organised by the Danish Smokers Rights Organisation, DaRy (http://www.dary.dk) The Danish Cancer Society was chosen, because it is a prime source of misinformation about smoking and smokers. The goal is to induce the members of The Danish Cancer Society to stop the hate campaigns against smokers.
If the Danish Cancer Society does not get off the backs of smokers, DaRy will proceed to demonstrate directly against the Danish Cancer Society. This demonstration was a first warning. The demonstration breaks new ground. Nobody has ever dared to demonstrate against an almighty Cancer Society. It is time for smokers to take action against their opressors. DaRy hopes to inspire other smokers rights groups into taking similar actions.
Watch this short video about the action.


Denmark Smokers Rights Video
Denmark Smokers Rights Protest



Please support the Danish and also write to express your solidarity with them to the author of the article and to the danish ambassador of your country of residence:
comments@cphpost.dk comments@cphpost.dk

http://www.um.dk/en/menu/AboutUs/Organisation/MissionsAbroad/


Dear madam, dear sir,
http://jp.dk/uknews/politics/article1302958.ece
According to the article "total smoking ban for Denmark", i find it very strange, that Denmark - which has already disporportioned fines for bar owners , unbearable pursuits through the smoke police and incredible controls through smoke melder like for dangerous criminals or terrorists!
http://www.raucherbewegung.eu/17.12.2007-danemark-ab-1.-januar-smoke-police.html
- although an italian constitutionnal jugment forbids to force bar owners enforcing the ban... (and of course to find them) http://www.raucherbewegung.eu/files/GB_Legal_IT.pdf
- Although the German constitutionnal court just *stopped* the ban for small bars and pubs http://www.orf.at/080212-21680/index.html
- And even in the US, court starts to stop the bans as they are NOT justified.
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/031908/REG_BG3IPNK3.033.php
Denmark  now wants an even stricter smoking ban ? as Austria is renouncing to it, and Germany is turning back to softer rules (especially in Bavaria) because of all the bankrupcies and other bad effects provoked by these inhuman prohibition undemocratic laws.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,539902,00.html
as everyone knows that a swedish mother was killed in Copenhague by the smoking ban under the eyes of her two young children  last year?
http://www.thelocal.se/8062/20070801/
Just now as Italian ex - Health Minister Sirchia is going to jail for fraud, bias and corruption?
http://www.agi.it/italy/news/200803061309-cro-ren0035-art.html
Just now as half the EU parliament is under control by OLAF the EU-Anti fraud office  because of huge fraudswith their expenses?
http://www.europaticker.de/0000_bilder/grafik/ep_report_spesen.pdf
As Ex EU Commissionner Kyprianou only had 19.000 ETS dead "passive smoking deads" in his last "Help" campaign (instead of 79.000 last year!!!)
AS we know that the slogan "passive smoking" was invented by the NAZIS in 1939 and was just a sign of the racial hygiene of Hitlers ideology?
http://www.wispofsmoke.net/SHSETS.html
Here you will find an anonymous contribution from Denmark to the world resistance movement against suppression of civil rights and prohibition, which many smorkers rights groups published simulteanously.  This is how the Danish people feel now in your country! Should it become even worse?
"Faschism lives"  http://www.smokersclub.com/video/denmarksmokers.wmv
And please we ask you to respect the will of the danish people having been opposing resistance for years now:
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How can something like this happen to a democratic country, just one of the ones that fights best againt the EU treaty... ?
All these "health" arguments are nothing but lies : the reality is, that Pfizer & co finance the campaign to earn Billions killing healthy youg people with the deadly product "Champix / Chantix / Var?cicline which pushes healthy young people to commit suicide, http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKN2062339020071120?sp=true
while Environnmental smoke never killed a single person! And of course with Nicotine products that smokers have to consume on flights, trains, at the office... and will they now put Nicotine gum spenders in the Denmark bars like in UK?  (And drink spenders to get rid of the waiters likein NL?
Not only the 39 years long Ernstrom study proved it, http://www.obscurious.co.uk/componants/smoking1440.pdf
and a 7 yrs long WHO study  (1991-1998, before the "tobacco free world" was decided):
http://www.davehitt.com/facts/who.html
Everyone knows now that the WHO(EU) is not serious:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/07/who-evidence.html#skip300x250
but als the recent  BGN study, especially made for the protection of the bars & restaurant employees, which proves that ETS has NO influence on their health.
http://raucherbewegung.eu/smokersforum/showthread.php?tid=145
http://raucherbewegung.eu/smokersforum/attachment.php?aid=20
Even anti-smoker searcher Michael Siegel reveals  the truth about the lies nowadays:
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/11/anti-smoking-groups-admit-to-knowingly.html
We cannot understand this, unless there are financial interests with Pfizer, Novartis, Glaxo & co and the Smokers Cabins industry.
Please try to spread the news to avoid all this ruin and unhappiness. Please SPREAD THE TRUTH!
Stop the bans, restaure civil rights and democracy!
Please fight for freedom; Fight for democracy. Please help the people of Denmark to get their freedom back.
Thank you in advance
Regards
Christine Cote
--
Austrian Smokers Movement
www.raucherbewegung.eu
French Smokers-Voters
www.electeurs-fumeurs.fr

Complete smoking ban on the way
By The Copenhagen Post
26.03.08
The nation's smokers should brace themselves - a complete smoking ban will be enforced before long at all public places
Smoking will soon be banned in all pubs and cafés. Even in establishments smaller than 40 square metres.
This loophole has kept smoking alive for many of the country's small establishments, and although the rule is less than a year old, MPs with Liberal Party politicians in the lead are gearing up for a complete ban.
The present ban only encompasses establishments over 40 square metres, which has meant that customers or patrons of Danish 'værtshus' bars have been able to keep their puffing habits alive and well.
'The current smoking ban does not work,' Birgitte Josefsen, the Liberal party's heath spokesperson, told Berlingske Tidende newspaper. 'It is outdated and you're not less exposed to smoke just because you're in a small place.'
Social Democratic MPs also agreed to vote for a complete ban, saying it was illogical that it was permissible to smoke in small bars and not larger ones.
Restaurants and bars across the country have spent nearly DKK 177 million on establishing smoking rooms and outdoor smoking facilities.
Horesta, the organisation representing the nation's restaurants and hotels, was concerned that a complete ban was already in the works after so much had already been invested in providing space for smoking customers.
However, a spokesperson said that most people were used to not being able to smoke indoors so a complete ban would probably not be difficult to enforce.
Liberal MPs said they would continue allowing all pub-owners to establish smoking cabins. (LYT)
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The ban was introduced August 15, 2007. The 'smoke police' will begin its work on January 1, 2008. The ban does not apply outside. There are exemptions for:
  * Bars with less than 40 sq metres serving area (i.e. seating area)
  * Dedicated smoking rooms
  * Smoking booths
  * One man offices
  The law will be 'revised' in 2009, with a view for new legislation to apply in 2010.
- A Newsletter Reader



Smoking detectors ready for action
By The Copenhagen Post
17.12.07
With the New Year, occupational health authorities will begin handing out fines instead of good advice to companies that violate workplace smoking laws
A five-month phase-in of the national smoking ban comes to a sudden halt this January, when a force of 500 inspectors hit the streets to ensure that companies abide by the law. The team expects to pay unannounced calls on as many as 25,000 workplaces in 2008.
Last August, a law prohibiting smoking in the vast majority of workplaces took effect. But until now, instead of issuing fines, the Working Environment Authority has issued warnings and given companies instructions on how they can live up to the new regulation.
But with the change of the year fast approaching, the 'hammer is ready to fall', according to authority assistant director Lis Gamborg.
First time violators of the smoking ban will be fined DKK 2000 (EUR 266), subsequent violations will result in DKK 5000 and DKK 10,000 fines.
Although inspectors are standing by and ready, the police, who are responsible for issuing the fines, say they have done little to prepare for the extra workload.
Some members of parliament expressed concern that that would mean violators reported by inspectors would go unpunished. They propose allowing the Work Environment Authority to issue its own fines.
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Anti-smoking law nips problem in butt
The Copenhagen Post - Copenhagen,Sealand,Denmark
That would be Douse Day, when the kibosh was put on their cigarettes, cigars and pipes, as a nationwide smoking ban took effect at all public buildings and ...


Danish grumblings over new smoking ban
South Asian Women's Forum - New Delhi,India
Denmark is the last of the five Nordic countries to introduce a smoking ban. Danish smokers who flout the law will not be fined but can be asked to leave ...




Denmark bans smoking in public places, bars and restaurants
August 15, 2007
COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Denmark on Wednesday joined the swelling ranks of European countries that have banned smoking in bars, restaurants and other public places.
The Danish law had initially been due to take effect on April 1, but was delayed until Aug. 15 to allow pub and restaurant owners to build the necessary facilities for smokers.
The law allows people to light up in separate smoking rooms and in secluded one-person workplaces. Smoking is also allowed in bars that are smaller than 40 square meters (430 square feet).
Denmark's Smokers Association organized a small protest late Tuesday on Copenhagen's main square where two dozen people lit up cigarettes as the City Hall's bells tolled at midnight.
"Welcome to the brave new prohibition world," association chairman Soeren Hoejbjerg yelled in a bullhorn as the clock stroke midnight.
"One day, we will only be allowed to smoke on Himmelbjerget (one of the highest points of elevation in Denmark)," he said, according to Danish news agency Ritzau.
Nearly a quarter of people in this country of 5.4 million are exposed to passive smoking, according to the National Board of Health.
The board said passive smoking was responsible for the deaths of at least 150 Danes and the hospitalization of more than 1,000 every year.
Employees or restaurants that violate the ban can be fined. First time offenders face a 2,000 kroner (€270; US$367) fine. The second time, the penalty is 5,000 kroner (€672; US$913) and 10,000 kroner (€1,345; US$1,830) the third time.
Ireland, Italy, Malta, Norway, Sweden and Britain are among the European countries that have already banned smoking in public places.
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I can enlighten you on some of the points.
* In 1950, when everybody smoked, 500 died of lung cancer. Today, only 24 % smoke, yet 3500 died of lung cancer in 2005.
* The cigarette sales increase is due to lowering of taxes, that has halted cross border trade in cigarettes accros the border from Germany.
* Smoking rate of 24 % is identical to the smoking rate in Norway, which is conveniently disregarded. Cancer mortality is lower in Norway. The old cherry picking trick.
* Long waiting lists are especially critical for lung cancer patients, which compounds further the problem of cancer mortality. This problem in Denmark is known, and is not unique to lung cancer. There are problems recruiting physicians and nurses. Patients are sent abroad for treatment. Smoking rates have nothing to do with this structural problem.
- Soren

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Cancer rate among the world's highest
July 17, 2007
Denmark has one of the world’s highest cancer mortality rates primarily due to its relatively high number of smokers
 
A deadly trio of poor lifestyles, too much smoking and long waiting periods for cancer treatment are undermining cancer prevention efforts and combining to give the country one of the world’s highest mortality rates for the disease, reported Berlingske Tidende newspaper this weekend.
Denmark's mortality rate from cancer rate is by far the highest in western Europe and puts the country’s prevention efforts on par with Kazakhstan, according to statistics from the World Health Organisation, the European U nion and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
For every 100,000 people in Denmark, 167 die of cancer. In Sweden, the figure is only 116 out of 100,000 and 115 in Finland. In only 13 of the WHO’s 193 member countries is there a greater risk of dying from cancer than in Denmark.
Most Danish cancer patients die within six months of the disease being detected, and most of those deaths are from lung cancer.
‘Denmark has a full-blown cancer problem which has stabilised at a very high level,’ said Dr Peter Boyle of the International Cancer Research Institute in Lyon, France. ‘It doesn’t seem as if the warnings against smoking have gotten through to Danes.’
Hans Storm, head of research for the Danish Cancer Society, pointed out that the relatively high percentage of Danes who light up - 24 percent of the population, compared with 17 percent in Sweden - plays a major role in the high death rate.
‘In Denmark it’s still okay to smoke everyone else out of the room,' he said. ‘Regardless of how good our health system is, the survival rate from lung cancer is not especially good,’ said .
While smoking has continually declined in popularity since the 1950s when 80 percent of men and 45 percent of women smoked, there has been a 15 percent increase in cigarette sales in Denmark since 2000.
That increase has gotten politicians to take a closer look at the price of cigarettes. The cheapest cigarettes in Denmark cost around DKK 20 a pack, which is about half the price of cigarettes in Norway and the UK.
The Liberals, Conservatives and the Danish People’s Party - who together create a majority in parliament - are now considering a proposal to raise cigarette prices.
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DENMARK AGAINST SMOKING BANS
18th-19th  of June 2007
700 Bar owners in Denmark are to start legal challenge against danish government.
Bar owners in Denmark fight for right to smoke !
Bar owners decide to press charges against the danish state during a meeting in a bar in the jutland city of Aarhus.
The owners of about seven hundred bars and cafes in Denmark, who are opposed to the new smokingban in Denmark, are now asked to support the sue against the danish state both economically and morally.
That was the result of a meeting held tuesday the 18th of june 2007 by bar owners from the towns Aarhus,Vejle and Copenhagen on the small cosy bar Pusterummet ("The Breathing Space") in  Aarhus.
Bar owner Johnny Beck from the bar Lumskebugten ("The treaky Bay") informs that the summer of 2007 will be used to find a lawyer, who is willing to take upon him the work of a case against the state, after the law goes into effect that imposes smoking ban on bars larger than forty square meters from the 15th of august 2007.
It can become a costly and protacted proces, but we count on that the many bar owners who has supported us morally during our antismokingban campaign and demonstration and signature campaign, also will make a economical contribution, Johnny beck says.
The smoking ban is a violation of the liberty of the individual.That is the attitude of the dozen bar owners, who met at the bar Pusterummet
Contacts :
From the website of www.rygervalg.dk , contact  Kim : kims@edb.dk
Johnny Beck, Landlord  of Lumskebugten Bar : contact : lumskebugten@stofanet.dk , http://www.barguide.dk/places/place/1618 Lumskebugten Havnegade 33 7100 , Vejle telephone (+45) 40 58 82 07
Bar Pusterummet. Frydenlundsalle 9 8210 Århus V Tel.: (+45) 86 15 87 22
Translation by Jan Jensen, www.rygerpartiet.dk
http://politiken.dk/indland/article327942.ece (danish)
http://www.bt.dk/article/20070619/nyheder/706190410/ (danish)
http://www.business.dk/article/20070619/fritid/70619003/ (danish)

Parliament passes smoking ban
30.05.2007
Parliament has passed its much-discussed smoking law, though the battle over the right to light up rages on 
A new smoking law that will go into effect 15 August was passed by parliament Tuesday. The ban will make it illegal to smoke at nearly all public and private workplaces and schools.
In addition to schools and workplaces, smoking will be forbidden in all public transport and taxis, restaurants and bars, with the exception of taverns smaller than 40 square metres that do not serve food.
But smoking will still be allowed for residents of nursing care homes and other institutions serving the socially disadvantaged or mentally ill. In addition, smoking will still be permitted in buildings with special smoking rooms and private offices.
Those exemptions resulted in 15 of the 111 members of parliament present for yesterday's vote to either abstain or oppose the measure. Another 68 MPs did not attend the final debate.
One of those abstaining from voting was Charlotte Fischer, the Social Liberal health spokesperson. She told TV2 News: 'The law forces employees to work in areas filled with smoke. Service and cleaning personnel still have to attend to restaurants' smoking rooms. It is a social insult in an area where inequality is already too great.'
The Danish Cancer Society also believes the law falls well short of what is necessary to protect employees.
'In principle, smoking can continue everywhere,' said Dr Inge Clemmensen, head of the organisation's workplace research and prevention division. 'We've gotten a cultural law that tells us where we can smoke but not a health law that limits the damage of smoking.'
In April smokers and small tavern owners staged a large protest against plans to adopt the law outside Christiansborg. they presented parliament with a petition signed by 61,000 people - but their efforts proved to be in vain.
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Thousands blow smoke at parliament
April 19, 2007
A mass demonstration at Christiansborg Palace continued Thursday as smokers protested against the new anti-smoking laws 
Smokers from across the country puffed away outside the house of parliament Thursday in protest of new anti-smoking legislation. In a second day of demonstrations nearly 10,000 smokers and restaurateurs handed politicians a petition signed by 61,000 people demanding a revision of legislation that will ban smoking in the vast majority of indoor public spaces.
Hundreds of cigarette, cigar and pipe lovers arrived at Christiansborg Palace in buses Wednesday to protest the new law, which is set to take effect on 25 August and will ban smoking in businesses larger than 40 square metres. The law also forbids the same establishments from serving any food items other than snacks such as crisps and nuts.
Over 300 bars had formally joined the protest as of Thursday morning, according to Dato newspaper.
‘Our politicians have to listen to us,' said Johnny Beck, manager of the Lumskebugten tavern in Vejle on Jutland, where the movement began. ‘We’ve gathered more than 61,000 signatures in just a short period and the debate has shown that we have the citizens behind us.’
Opponents of the new law believe it will force many restaurants and bars to close by driving away their core of faithful smoking customers. Many are also complaining about the cost of building the smoking rooms that would permit businesses to continue to allow smoking.
Birthe Skaarup, chair for parliament’s health committee, was not moved by the protests.
‘I think we’ve reached a viable solution, but we’re naturally ready to listen to the people,’ Skaarup told the crowd.
The committee did agree to give representatives for the demonstrators the chance to discuss their concerns during a meeting scheduled for Thursday afternoon. But smoker Ole Tjener of the city of Svendborg, Funen felt there wasn't anything to discuss.
‘They’re not going to tell me whether or not I can smoke at my local bar.’
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Cafe and restaurant owners protest Danish smoking ban
April 18, 2007
Hundreds of Danish cafe and restaurant owners and their customers protested on Wednesday outside parliament against a ban on smoking in public places due to be introduced on August 15.
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Protest planned for April 18, 2007
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Denmark delays smoking ban

3/13/07

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Denmark will delay introducing a ban on smoking in public places by four months to give lawmakers more time to consider the legislation, a senior Danish MP said Tuesday.

"We have simply not had the time to examine this question in depth, and we do not want to botch it in such a short time," Preben Rudingaard, deputy chairman of parliament's health commission and a member of the ruling liberal party, told AFP.

Rudingaard said that a large majority of lawmakers still backed the idea, adding that the ban would now come into effect on August 15 rather than April 1 as planned.

From that time it will be illegal to smoke in public buildings, shopping centres, sports halls, cultural centres and other public spaces.

Smoking will also be banned in bars, cafes and restaurants bigger than 100 metres squared (1,070 square feet), although separate smoking areas will be allowed. For smaller venues, it will be up to the owner to decide.

The government believes the private sector should also take action on smoking but refuses to legislate in this area.

Official statistics from 2005 suggest 28 per cent of the Danish population smoke, including 31 per cent of men and 25 per cent of women, against 41 per cent and 37 per cent ten years earlier.

Smoking bans have already been introduced across Europe, in Ireland, Norway, Italy, Malta, Sweden, Scotland, Latvia and Lithuania, with Wales set to follow in April and England in July.
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The government is ready to propose banning smoking at all restaurants starting in April 2007
 
March 28, 2006

The country's smoking regulations are to be expanded to include restaurants, bars, and other establishments serving food, reported TV2 on Tuesday. The new law will go into effect on 1 April 2007.

'The goal is a clear one: people need to be able to go out and about without being subjected to smoke against their will. That involves cafés and other public places,' said the minister of health, Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

The law will allow restaurants to set up separate smoking rooms. Bars over 100 square metres will also be permitted to have a smoking room.

The new ban builds on Denmark's current smoking legislation, which took effect on 1 June 2005. The law requires all restaurants and bars to post a sign telling customers whether the restaurant allows smoking, forbids it, or has a smoking section.

Public buildings, such as city halls and the house of parliament, are also in the process of restricting smoking to specially ventilated areas or requiring that smoking workers step outside, away from entrances, before lighting up.
 
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Denmark bans smoking in public places, bars and restaurants August 15, 2007COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Denmark on Wednesday joined the swelling ranks of European countries that have banned smoking in bars, restaurants and other public places.
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Sweet toothed smokers could pay for proposed tax reform Smokers: The war is in progress 27. 27. juli 2009 Jacob Wenzel  There is open war among smokers and nonsmokers, says Denmark's Smoke Association who believe that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking.  Denmark Smoke Association believes that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking.  Denmark Smoke Association sees the trend to more complaints about smoke from neighbors as the latest battle in the war between smokers and nonsmokers.  They believe that anti-smoking debate the nature of a real war, and according to spokesman Soren Højbjerg association is ready for war and will win it.  But it is clear that tenants are in panic and complain that his neighbor smokes when both interest groups, politicians and the media blowing the threat of passive smoking up to unrealistic heights, said the association.  "I think this is not strange for the news and the newspapers are full of stories of how dangerous passive smoking is, and it's clear that people are starting to become interested in it," says Soren Højbjerg to Newspaq.  He responded to it has emerged that more and more tenants complain that neighbor smoke seeps into their apartment.  But the association casts doubt as to whether passive smoking is really so dangerous that most anti-smokers claim.  Among others, the French tobacco research and smoking cessation specialist, Professor Robert Molimard has also announced that the only people who are at risk of smoking is smokers themselves. In Denmark it is estimated that 2,000 people die each year from passive smoke.  But the figures are totally blown out of proportion, said the researcher.  Anti-tobacco lobby, for example, consists of the Heart Association and Cancer Society, counting both smokers and former smokers even with the stats show . According to him, the real death toll from passive smoking in Denmark closer to a round zero.  Soren Højbjerg may well understand that you can be bothered by the smell when you are not themselves smoke.  But on the other hand, one can not expect that you will never feel anything from a neighbor.  When you live in an apartment, so in fact share a property with other people. Somewhere, then we are forced to find themselves in the neighbor's activities can sneak in for a while. Especially if it is an older building, "says the rygerforkæmperen. Sweet toothed smokers could pay for proposed tax reform Sweet toothed smokers could pay for proposed tax reform Smokers: The war is in progress 27. 27. juli 2009 Jacob Wenzel  There is open war among smokers and nonsmokers, says Denmark's Smoke Association who believe that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking.  Denmark Smoke Association believes that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking.  Denmark Smoke Association sees the trend to more complaints about smoke from neighbors as the latest battle in the war between smokers and nonsmokers.  They believe that anti-smoking debate the nature of a real war, and according to spokesman Soren Højbjerg association is ready for war and will win it.  But it is clear that tenants are in panic and complain that his neighbor smokes when both interest groups, politicians and the media blowing the threat of passive smoking up to unrealistic heights, said the association.  "I think this is not strange for the news and the newspapers are full of stories of how dangerous passive smoking is, and it's clear that people are starting to become interested in it," says Soren Højbjerg to Newspaq.  He responded to it has emerged that more and more tenants complain that neighbor smoke seeps into their apartment.  But the association casts doubt as to whether passive smoking is really so dangerous that most anti-smokers claim.  Among others, the French tobacco research and smoking cessation specialist, Professor Robert Molimard has also announced that the only people who are at risk of smoking is smokers themselves. In Denmark it is estimated that 2,000 people die each year from passive smoke.  But the figures are totally blown out of proportion, said the researcher.  Anti-tobacco lobby, for example, consists of the Heart Association and Cancer Society, counting both smokers and former smokers even with the stats show . According to him, the real death toll from passive smoking in Denmark closer to a round zero.  Soren Højbjerg may well understand that you can be bothered by the smell when you are not themselves smoke.  But on the other hand, one can not expect that you will never feel anything from a neighbor.  When you live in an apartment, so in fact share a property with other people. Somewhere, then we are forced to find themselves in the neighbor's activities can sneak in for a while. Especially if it is an older building, "says the rygerforkæmperen. Sweet toothed smokers could pay for proposed tax reform
 
 
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