Tobacco firms fume over Russia's smoking ban
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By Mikhail Moshkin, special to Russia Now
1:13PM BST 17 Sep 2012
The Ministry of Health in Russia has developed a draft anti-tobacco law that proposes a total ban on smoking in public places.
The battle between the tobacco lobby and anti-smoking campaigners is set to intensify when the Ministry of Health’s draft anti-smoking law is submitted to the State Duma in the autumn.
It has been 11 years since the Russianauthorities passed a law restricting smoking in public areas. Four years ago, Russia ratified the anti-tobacco convention of the World Health Organisation, and two years later Vladimir Putin signed the Governmental Concept for Restriction of Tobacco Consumption.
According to the head of the international Confederation of Consumer Societies and anti-tobacco campaigner Dmitry Yanin, Russia has one of the highest rates of smokers in the world: around 60pc of Russian men and 22pc of women smoke.
“Russia is the second largest tobacco market after China even despite the huge difference in their populations”, Mr Yanin says. “So it’s no wonder that manufacturers so forcefully attack the new draft bill.”
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