| | Latest news | Lobby MPs to back smoke-free Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Welsh MP Julie Morgan will today (12 January 2005) introduce a Private Members Bill in Parliament that, if passed, would give the National Assembly for Wales the power to make public places and workplaces in Wales smoke-free. |
 | | A ban on smoking in public would be welcomed by the 260,000 people with asthma living in Wales: 82% of people with asthma say that breathing other people's smoke worsens their symptoms, and Finnish scientists recently concluded that exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke can cause adults to develop asthma. |
 | | However, the decision to pass the Welsh Assembly bill will be made in Westminster by MPs from across Britain, and Asthma UK campaigners have encouraged people who want to see smoke-free public places in Wales to join an online petition to lobby their MPs, asking them to support the bill. |
| www.asthma.org.uk /news/news200.php (298 words) |