Ministers have announced a voluntary agreement with the drinks industry that warnings will be placed on bottles and cans. Should you pop or leave blisters? Join the debate More than 100 men and women are admitted to hospital with alcoholrelated liver disease every day, it was has been revealed. She added: "We saw with the tobacco industry that it took decades of pressure to overcome the reluctance of ministers to warn people properly about the dangers of smoking how long must we wait for...

DEFIANT smokers carried on puffing yesterday as thousands flouted the bar on lighting up in public. On Day One of the controversial ban, addicts packed out pubs and bars across the country for organised "smoke-ins" Care homes, royal residences, prisons, army barracks and England's 15 specialist tobacconists have been given permission to allow smoking on premises. But though the ban applies only to "enclosed spaces" many councils, hospitals, colleges and rail stations have extended the law...

Ken MacKenzie, Amcor ltd.'s chief executive officer July 2 (Bloomberg) -- La Seda de Barcelona SA, Europe's largest maker of PET packaging, agreed to buy a rival business from Amcor ltd. for 425 million euros ($575 million) to tap demand for plastic bottles and containers for food and beverages. Ken MacKenzie, Amcor ltd.'s chief executive officer July 2 (Bloomberg) -- La Seda de Barcelona SA, Europe's largest maker of PET packaging, agreed to buy a rival business from Amcor ltd. for 425...

The same factors appeared to put pressure on the pub chains, with Enterprise Inns dropping 15. Among commodity stocks, platinum specialist Lonmin added 159p to 4179p amid talk from traders of a potential 4500p a share bid from rival Xstrata, as global demand fuelled consolidation in the sector. Meanwhile, security fears and high oil prices turned investors off the aerospace sector, where British Airways was down 5. Other firms on the front foot included housebuilders after a bullish...

It can either mean you are looking at yourself as a person who doesn't smoke anymore, or it can mean someone is taking away your ability to smoke. Statewide, tobacco-related illnesses killed more people than motor vehicle accidents, suicides, AIDS, and homicides combined in 1997. CATCH also works to reduce the burden of tobacco to residents of Bayfield and Ashland counties through education and activism. To those who don't smoke, it can mean not having to walk through smoke filled...