UK adheres to Formula One exemption
| Autor: | John Warden |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Motor racing
medicine.medical_specialty Government Public health media_common.quotation_subject General Engineering Subject (philosophy) General Medicine Directive humanities Negotiation Law Political science medicine General Earth and Planetary Sciences Position (finance) health care economics and organizations General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. 315:1397-1402 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.315.7120.1397 |
| Popis: | The first British government to support a ban on tobacco advertising will enter negotiations in Europe on 4 December with reservations that could delay the ban. This is due to the Labour government's insistence that Formula One motor racing should be exempted from a ban (15 November, p 1251). While the government seeks approval by the European Health Council for a directive imposing a comprehensive advertising ban, it emerged last week that it wants grand prix motor racing to be given a permanent exemption and to be subject to only voluntary controls. The public health minister, Tessa Jowell, told a committee of MPs that the directive must safeguard the position of Formula One as well as meet public health concerns that smoking should be reduced. She was uncertain if a common position would be agreed next week. In Britain the issue has gone wider, with suspicions that the government was … |
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