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By Sion Barry ALL Bar One and Harvester owner, Mitchells&Butlers, yesterday said it would need to more than triple sales growth to offset soaring energy bills and regulatory costs over the year ahead. The group reported like-for-like sales up 0.9% in the 51 weeks to September 20, but said comparable sales would need to grow by around 3% to keep operating profits at a similar level in the following year. M&B, which also owns the O'Neills chain, said it was facing a pounds 9m rise in duty,...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the Sept. 11 effective date of Pennsylvania's Clean Indoor Air Act fast approaching, the Department of Health is reminding businesses about online resources to help them comply with the law that will ban smoking in most public places, including restaurants, workplaces and a portion of casino floors. Guidance and a downloadable toolkit for public places and workplaces, as well as frequently asked questions and materials useful in...
THE Medical Director of Liverpool's world-famous children's hospital is starring in a new public health campaign. Steve Ryan, medical director of Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, is the face of the hard-hitting SmokeFree Kids campaign in the city - which aims to focus adults' attention on the dangers of smoking around children. Dr Ryan said: "At Alder Hey, we see many young patients with problems caused by adults smoking around them. That is why we are backing the SmokeFree Kids...
To help people understand the state's smoking ban, Tobacco Free Allegheny, an non-profit organization supported by the Allegheny County Health Department, will hold free workshops, the health department said today. The Clean Indoor Air Act takes effect Sept. 11 and will prohibit smoking in most public places and workplaces. The workshops will provide information and advice for business owners, human resource managers and others responsible for implementing the law. Workshops will be held on...
WASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Benjamin Chu, president of the Southern California Region of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Legacy Foundation, the national, independent public health foundation dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. Dr. Chu is one of the three medical doctors who serve on the 11-member American Legacy Foundation Board. Dr. Chu...
By Mary Lou Hinrichsen, Clinton Herald, Iowa Jul. 10--GRAND MOUND -- The Clinton County Conservation Board, after a 45-minute discussion with County Attorney Mike Wolf on Wednesday night, unanimously adopted rules for county parks to comply with Iowa's new Smokefree Air Act. Wolf told the board that the Iowa Department of Public Health, which was made responsible for the enforcement of the act, adopted administrative rules, including: --Smoking is prohibited on the grounds of public...
Several German states have imposed smoking restrictions in cafes, bars, restaurants and nightclubs that took effect on January 1st of this year. But many Germans are blatantly disobeying the new laws without consequence."I'm smoking because no one's stopping me," said photographer Frank Blum, as he sat smoking in a German café along with many other customers.Theoretically, anyone smoking in these places faces fines up to $1500, but the police and proprietors responsible for enforcing the...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hotel chain Marriott International Inc. will announce on Wednesday that it is banning smoking in all rooms of its 2,300-plus hotels in the United States and Canada, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Wednesday.The move is part of an effort to stop an increasingly common source of guest complaints, the report said.More than 90 percent of Marriott's hotel rooms in the United States and Canada are already nonsmoking, but smoking will now be banned in public...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hotel chain Marriott International Inc. will announce on Wednesday that it is banning smoking in all rooms of its 2,300-plus hotels in the United States and Canada, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Wednesday. The move is part of an effort to stop an increasingly common source of guest complaints, the report said. More than 90 percent of Marriott's hotel rooms in the United States and Canada are already nonsmoking, but smoking will now be banned...
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Lorillard Tobacco Co. on Monday disputed part of their settlement obligations to U.S. states, paying $755 million into special escrow accounts. The actions, prompted by falling market share, effectively reduce the funds that are immediately available to the 46 states in the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) for debt service, health care costs and other uses. R.J. Reynolds, a unit of Reynolds American Inc., said it...
