Hollywood stars Charlize Theron and Will Smith has participated on the 30th Moscow International Film Festival to present their new movie – Hankock directed by Piter Ber. The organizer of the festival stated that nor Charlize Theron neither Will Smith have not demanded any special request from hosting party before coming to Russia. “However both Hollywood stars asked to keep them away from smoking people; there should not be strictly anyone who smokes among service personnel – drivers, bodyguards etc” – was emphasized by the organizers. Besides, Will Smith doesn’t like alcohol and doesn’t eat meat at all. He prefers only mineral water, drinking at least one bottle of mineral water per hour. Davamı →

At the building of Russian government was applied overall prohibition to smoking. The only place in Russian white house where it was possible recently to smoke used to be toilets. However, at the end of last week there were appeared labels titled: “No smoking at the building of Russian Federation”. Nowadays smokers have to leave the building to smoke. There was no answer to the request who is the initiator of this prohibition from the public relation department of white house. As it was explained at the government apparatus theoretically there had to be the officially confirmed decree which should be presented to the attention of all habitants of the government house. Davamı →

From April 2009 on boxes of tobacco products will be described horrible pictograms instead of colorful pictures. Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of Kirgizia Mr. Madamin Karataev told about it on a press conference. Based on his words the article 11 “Requirements to packing and marking tobacco products” of the Law of the Republic of Kirgizia on “Protection of health of citizen of the Republic of Kirgizia from harmful impact of tobacco” will start to come to force from 1st of April 2009. According to that article each box and pack of tobacco product should consist of a medical precaution which covers at least 50 % of the main surface of both sides of the box in a form of text, picture or pictogram. Davamı →

An international meeting on waste management has begun in Bali, Indonesia, to highlight the risks of hazardous waste. Ministers from nearly 170 countries will be considering setting up a new body on electronic and computer waste. The five-day meeting is expected to focus on the impacts of hazardous waste on human health and livelihoods. It will also look at the disposal of massive amounts of electronic waste such as old mobile phones. Davamı →

TOKYO (Reuters) – Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow’s feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
The legal age for smoking in Japan is 20 and as the country’s 570,000 tobacco vending machines prepare for a July regulation requiring them to ensure buyers are not underage, a company has developed a system to identify age by studying facial features.
By having the customer look into a digital camera attached to the machine, Fujitaka Co’s system will compare facial characteristics, such as wrinkles surrounding the eyes, bone structure and skin sags, to the facial data of over 100,000 people, Hajime Yamamoto, a company spokesman said. Davamı →