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Hello, welcome to this week's Naked Scientists.

This is the program where we bring you the latest breakthroughs and talk to the biggest

movers and shakers from the world of science, technology and medicine. I'm Chris Smith.

Coming up, how the UK looks set to take the world's toughest line on smoking. Also the new study showing that

last year's Canadian wildfires pumped out more CO2 into the atmosphere than

almost every other country worldwide and why are those astronauts still stranded on the

International Space Station? From Cambridge University's Institute of

Continuing Education this is the naked scientists.

The UK Prime Minister Sir Kia Starmer has said that his government is looking at tougher

rules on outdoor smoking to reduce the number of preventable diseases that are linked to tobacco use. To find out more we put in a call to

Linda Bald who's a professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh.

The government has a piece of legislation called the tobacco and vapesville. We were hoping it would come to the next

stage of parliament in the summer, but it looks like it will be into September. In the meantime,

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