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    Participate in our law and pandemic flu workshop

    We need more participants for our law and pandemic
    flu workshop in Lisbon in 2009.

    As well as helping to contribute to an important research study
    our workshops provide you with the opportunity to share best
    practice in legal preparedness for pandemic influenza
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    If you have expertise in public health and law as a tool
    for the control of communicable disease and are interested in
    participating please  click here for more information. 

     

     

     

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    Special Feature: Smoking and the Law in Europe
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    Since EPHLN's launch in 2007, countries across Europe (and indeed the wider world) have introduced legislation restricting or banning the smoking of cigarettes and other tobacco products in public places.

    The legislation rarely passes without controversy. Those in the bar and restaurant industry have raised concerns over loss of income due to the prohibition of smoking on their premises. However, the public health impact of such bans is believed to be significant and evidence is already emerging of reductions in hospital admissions, sick leave, and improved air quality. 

    Here we present some of the evidence to you. Controversy reported in the mass media, and peer reviewed literature expounding the short term benefits of legislation. 

     

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    What is the European Public Health Law Network?

    EPHLN has been set up as part of an EC co-funded public health law project, PHLawFlu which looks at the use of law as a tool in
    promoting and protecting public health, with specific reference to human pandemic influenza.

    The EPHLN website aims to champion the discipline of public health law, and make public health law and related resources available to all those with an interest, be it professional, academic or personal.

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