Russia To Ban Smoking Indoors

Russia is on the smoking ban in all enclosed spaces, in an effort to habit that kills 500,000 people every year break, said the Health Ministry. All disputes between the ministries of the ban have been resolved," said a spokesman of the Ministry.

The bill still requires the approval of Parliament. The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the bill, describing it as a "breakthrough" for Russia.
But Russia `s Consumers Union criticized the bill, saying that borders do little to discourage the use of snuff, Rossiyskaya Gazeta government newspaper.

More adults smoke in Russia than in any other major country in the world of smoking, the WHO published a report last year concluded.

He said that there were nearly 40 percent of the country's 143 million members of the population smoking.

Smoking-related diseases kill as many as 350,000 to half a million Russians every year, according to Russian officials.

In 2010, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved a national program to combat the snuff-developed, the number of adult smokers in a neighborhood that 2015.programme be reduced by the number of adult smokers a quarter will fight cut to 2015.