Russia to submit to Parliament proposals for smoking in public places

Russia's attempt to curb smoking, overcoming opposition from the cigarette manufacturers, Russia submitted to Congress on October 30, an anti-smoking bill. According to the document said that a date is October 29, and released on October 30 on the government website, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Weiye Fu the appointed Vice Health Minister Sergei Velmyaikin as the contact legislators.

Olga Golodets, Russian Deputy Prime Minister, in an interview on October 18, said: "social lobbyists will no chance we want to live in a comfortable country responsible for our own health in that sense, tobacco the legal conventional paradigm for Russia's development.


Many persons love to smoke Pall Mall cigarettes,  Kent cigarettes.

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Russia is the world's second-largest cigarette market after China. This country's government has suggested a number of measures all tobacco advertising and sponsorship, and small cargo kiosk selling cigarettes immediately determined to be illegal behavior, and proposed a ban on small retail point of sale and purchase of cigarettes, and laws prohibiting smoking in public places from January 1, 2015 commencement.

According to Golodets said, as part of the work carried out to improve the health status of citizens and increase the duty on alcoholic beverages in Russia, this year on the passage of the tobacco law. Dmitry Weiye Fu said in a video blog on October 16, control 93% of the Russian market, Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco Group to lure women and children, smoking, and he vowed to curb smoking Such bad habits. 1:38 PM October 30 in London, Europe's largest cigarette manufacturer British American Tobacco company's stock fell 0.5%, the transaction rate of reduction of 0.1%, to 3123.5 pence. According to the operating profit growth in the October 30 report, manufacturing Davidoff cigarettes, Imperial Tobacco company stock rose 1.5%, to 2367 pence.