If the State Public Health Council could regulate public smoking, a lot of New Yorkers would be breathing easier by now.

Mr. Abinanti, a Democrat, said he appreciated how Mayor Bloomberg had changed the tide on regulating smoking.

The rules are stricter than most of those enacted by the dozen or so states that regulate smoking.

A new court decision marks an immediate setback for New York State's effort to regulate smoking in order to promote public health.

Millions of New Yorkers will breathe easier starting May 7; that's the effective date for the State Public Health Council's new rules regulating public smoking.

The Tobacco Control Act 2007 regulates public smoking and the marketing and sale of tobacco products in Kenya.

Punitive measures to regulate smoking have little effect.

Hunt Braly, chief of staff for Senator Davis, said that the senator believed that it was not appropriate for the State Legislature to be regulating smoking.

The city rules regulating smoking in public places have been denounced as lethal threats to restaurants, even as racially discriminatory.

The current law regulating smoking in schools is eight years old.