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WRS stories about smoking
Federal law has 'a lot of gaps' as smoking ban turns 2
Tuesday, 1 May, 2012
Switzerland’s national smoking ban in public places is two years old today. Smoking is still not quite completely forbidden though and some cantons have slightly different rules on where you can and can’t smoke. WRS’s Jo Fahy reports:
Tuesday, 1 May, 2012
Switzerland’s national smoking ban in public places is two years old today. Smoking is still not quite completely forbidden though and some cantons have slightly different rules on where you can and can’t smoke. WRS’s Jo Fahy reports:
ABE: E-cigarettes—quitter's best friend or new health hazard?
Thursday, 2 February, 2012
Electronic cigarettes can’t legally be marketed as a tool to quit smoking—and no studies have been conducted to prove their effectiveness against nicotine addiction—but that’s why 95% of e-cigarette users smoke them. The ones sold in Switzerland are nicotine-free, so what do they contain? ABE, the Consumer Show clears the air:
Thursday, 2 February, 2012
Electronic cigarettes can’t legally be marketed as a tool to quit smoking—and no studies have been conducted to prove their effectiveness against nicotine addiction—but that’s why 95% of e-cigarette users smoke them. The ones sold in Switzerland are nicotine-free, so what do they contain? ABE, the Consumer Show clears the air:
Teens say they'll still smoke despite scary warnings
Monday, 19 December, 2011
We’ve all seen the warnings on cigarette packets—pictures of diseased body parts and rotting teeth—but just how effective are they at getting people to quit smoking? When it comes to teenagers—not very it seems. A new study by the University of Fribourg found that despite the warnings 73 percent of teenagers say they’ll still be smoking in five years time. WRS’s Dave Goodman spoke to psycholinguist Pascal Gygax who headed up the study:
Monday, 19 December, 2011
We’ve all seen the warnings on cigarette packets—pictures of diseased body parts and rotting teeth—but just how effective are they at getting people to quit smoking? When it comes to teenagers—not very it seems. A new study by the University of Fribourg found that despite the warnings 73 percent of teenagers say they’ll still be smoking in five years time. WRS’s Dave Goodman spoke to psycholinguist Pascal Gygax who headed up the study:
Battle in Basel rages on despite vote to ban smoking
Monday, 28 November, 2011
Voters in the canton of Basel-City on Sunday rejected an initiative to loosen rules on smoking in restaurants and bars. Just 200 votes secured the canton’s stricter regulations, instead of reverting to federal laws on the sizes or types of businesses exempted in the law. Had the Basel-City initiative passed, it would have settled a fight between officials and members of Fümoar, a group of restaurants who banded together to try to get exempted from the law. Fümoar calls it their right. Basel officials call it a loophole. WRS’s Tony Ganzer talked about the vote with Mark Keller, a spokesman for Basel’s Building and Traffic Department:
Monday, 28 November, 2011
Voters in the canton of Basel-City on Sunday rejected an initiative to loosen rules on smoking in restaurants and bars. Just 200 votes secured the canton’s stricter regulations, instead of reverting to federal laws on the sizes or types of businesses exempted in the law. Had the Basel-City initiative passed, it would have settled a fight between officials and members of Fümoar, a group of restaurants who banded together to try to get exempted from the law. Fümoar calls it their right. Basel officials call it a loophole. WRS’s Tony Ganzer talked about the vote with Mark Keller, a spokesman for Basel’s Building and Traffic Department:
Bern considers standarized legal age to buy cigarettes
Monday, 26 September, 2011
When it comes to smoking, how can we protect children and teenagers from the perils of this highly addictive habit? One way is to put a minimum age limit on buying tobacco products—and Switzerland is no exception to this rule… or is it? Certain cantons have a minimum age limit of 16. In other cantons it’s 18, but in some parts of Switzerland children can legally buy cigarettes. WRS’s Lucia Walton has this report:
Monday, 26 September, 2011
When it comes to smoking, how can we protect children and teenagers from the perils of this highly addictive habit? One way is to put a minimum age limit on buying tobacco products—and Switzerland is no exception to this rule… or is it? Certain cantons have a minimum age limit of 16. In other cantons it’s 18, but in some parts of Switzerland children can legally buy cigarettes. WRS’s Lucia Walton has this report:
Private 'smoking-only' clubs exploit legal loophole, Basel officials say
Friday, 1 July, 2011
Anti-smoking lobbies in Switzerland hailed smoking bans in restaurants or bars as successful measures to protect people from second-hand smoke. But in some Swiss cantons, bar and restaurant owners are uniting to form private, card-holding associations. They declare the businesses to be smoking-only, and check membership at the door. One of the largest of these associations is in Basel, where officials say what was supposed to be a small exemption for smoker-friendly locales, is simply exploitation of a loophole. WRS’s Tony Ganzer reports:
Friday, 1 July, 2011
Anti-smoking lobbies in Switzerland hailed smoking bans in restaurants or bars as successful measures to protect people from second-hand smoke. But in some Swiss cantons, bar and restaurant owners are uniting to form private, card-holding associations. They declare the businesses to be smoking-only, and check membership at the door. One of the largest of these associations is in Basel, where officials say what was supposed to be a small exemption for smoker-friendly locales, is simply exploitation of a loophole. WRS’s Tony Ganzer reports:
Introducing a feel-good anti-smoking campaign
Tuesday, 11 January, 2011
The Federal Office of Public Health has taken a new tack in its effort to stamp out smoking. It’s using positive messages and images in the place of the traditional dark hallmarks of government anti-smoking campaigns. WRS’s Susan Flory calls up Adrian Kammer, head of campaigns for the office, who agrees it’s an unusual way to drive home the anti-smoking message, but one they’re hoping is more effective:
Tuesday, 11 January, 2011
The Federal Office of Public Health has taken a new tack in its effort to stamp out smoking. It’s using positive messages and images in the place of the traditional dark hallmarks of government anti-smoking campaigns. WRS’s Susan Flory calls up Adrian Kammer, head of campaigns for the office, who agrees it’s an unusual way to drive home the anti-smoking message, but one they’re hoping is more effective:
Swiss company to hit a billion cigars
Monday, 11 October, 2010
One billion cigars and cigarillos this year—not coming from Cuba but from Swiss maker Villiger. Reporter Alex Helmick explores the Villiger tobacco headquarters and production line and the company’s task of keeping cigars independent of cigarettes:
Monday, 11 October, 2010
One billion cigars and cigarillos this year—not coming from Cuba but from Swiss maker Villiger. Reporter Alex Helmick explores the Villiger tobacco headquarters and production line and the company’s task of keeping cigars independent of cigarettes:
Growing tobacco 'epidemic' among women and girls
Monday, 31 May, 2010
“Tobacco use is neither liberating nor glamorous. It is addictive and deadly.” Those are the words of Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organisation, which is marking World No Tobacco Day today. The UN health body is focusing this year on the dangers of tobacco for women and girls, and the way that tobacco advertising is targeting them. WRS’s Conor Lennon spoke with WHO spokesperson Barbara Zolti:
Monday, 31 May, 2010
“Tobacco use is neither liberating nor glamorous. It is addictive and deadly.” Those are the words of Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organisation, which is marking World No Tobacco Day today. The UN health body is focusing this year on the dangers of tobacco for women and girls, and the way that tobacco advertising is targeting them. WRS’s Conor Lennon spoke with WHO spokesperson Barbara Zolti:
Smokers to face graphic health warnings
Thursday, 25 June, 2009
Swiss smokers will soon have to look at graphic images of the damage done by smoking, including a body in a morgue, a child with an oxygen mask and diseased lungs. Cigarette manufacturers will have to carry these photos from january 1, 2010. Will this make much difference to people who already see ’smoking kills’ on their packets?
Thursday, 25 June, 2009
Swiss smokers will soon have to look at graphic images of the damage done by smoking, including a body in a morgue, a child with an oxygen mask and diseased lungs. Cigarette manufacturers will have to carry these photos from january 1, 2010. Will this make much difference to people who already see ’smoking kills’ on their packets?
