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Canada Proposes Smoking Ban on International Flights: Canada has unveiled a controversial proposal that would ban smoking on all international flights. The anti-smoking resolution--which calls for gradual restrictions with a total ban earmarked for July 1, 1994--cites the World Health Organization’s findings that smoking and “second-hand smoke” are health hazards. The proposal has been presented to the 173-member International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations’ watchdog for the air transport industry, where it is expected to meet tough resistance. The United States, Australia, Russia and China have outlawed smoking on domestic flights, but not on long-haul international ones.