Strict legislation in terms of smoking has imposed the feeling of marginalization to more and more smokers in Australia, said a report released by the Australian National University (ANU) on Thursday.
They said it couldn't be done but, 12 months on, Beijing's smoking ban has been heralded a success having made shared public spaces in the capital cleaner, healthier and safer.
Japan has halted all its Shinkansen bullet trains running between Tokyo and Osaka, after one of the super express trains made an emergency stop south of Tokyo when white smoke was seen billowing out of one of the carriages following a man setting himself alight.
Smoke from the massive bushfires in the Australian state of New South Wales is likely to drift more than 2,000 km across the Tasman into New Zealand in the next few days, a New Zealand government research agency warned Thursday.
The death toll from a fire early Sunday in a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil has climbed to 233, and 106 injured are receiveing treatment in hospital, local television reports said.
Poor air quality in some cities of China, particularly in the capital Beijing, has hit international headlines and it is a problem which big cities in industrialized countries have repeatedly come up against for decades.
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