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The Iloilo City Anti-Smoking Task Force (ICAST) is intensifying its efforts to enforce the city’s Comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance, ensuring stricter compliance in public areas, streets, and schools. The ordinance also bans tobacco advertising, promotions, and sponsorships within the city.

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Romania is set to crack down on smoking in prohibited places with harsher fines for both individuals and legal entities. The Social Protection, Health and Family Committee has examined a draft amendment to the country’s tobacco control legislation, which will be proposed for approval to the plenary session of the Parliament.

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Monroe County, which encompasses the Florida Keys, has passed a new law banning smoking on several of its beaches and in its parks. The ordinance, approved unanimously and without discussion by the Monroe County Commissioners in August, prohibits smoking any lighted tobacco product on county-owned beaches and parks, with the exception of unfiltered cigars.

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The city of Miami Beach has passed a new law banning cigarette smoking at its renowned beaches and public parks, set to take effect on January 1, 2023. The law, which received final approval from city commissioners on Wednesday, outlaws the smoking of cigarettes and other tobacco products in these areas, with an exception for unfiltered cigars.

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Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill giving local governments in Florida the authority to restrict smoking on public beaches and parks. The legislation, House Bill 105, was passed by the Florida Legislature in March and aims to protect the public from the health hazards of secondhand tobacco smoke.

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