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| | CLEAN INDOOR AIR NEWS - Scotland Passes Nationwide Smokefree Legislation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Employers caught failing to enforce the law could be fined as much as £2,500 and individuals smoking in prohibited areas as much as £1,000. |
 | | 13,000 people in Scotland die of smoking-related illnesses each year, and Scotland's health minister estimates that the new law will save thousands of lives each year, including the 400-500 non-smokers who die annually from secondhand smoke. |
 | | Scotland is the first country in the UK to approve a national clean indoor air law, and several other UK countries, most notably Wales, are likely to follow suit. |
| www.law.capital.edu /Tobacco/News2/2005/20050630CleanIndoorAirNews.asp (158 words) |
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