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.
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.
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.
Use the map on your left to access reports about smoking bans in different European countries
Is your country missing? Want to share a report with us? Click here.
All about EPHLN
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.
We strongly encourage visitors and members to share public health law content with us by
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