Smoking Ban Takes Effect Across Italy
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As of today 14 million Italians will no longer be allowed to smoke in public places unless they have special ventilated smoking rooms.
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By Lyndsay Moss, PA Health Correspondent and Emily Pennink, PA. The Government will today announce a ban on smoking in all workplaces and anywhere serving food.
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The Government is unlikely to emulate Ireland in introducing an outright ban on smoking in public places. In March this year. Ireland became the first European country to ban smoking in workplaces, including pubs and restaurants.
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But the days of Spanish-style political horsetrading -- done in a tobacco-fueled haze -- ended Wednesday at Parliament as tough new anti-smoking regulations came into force.
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Scotland became the latest country to  take a stand against tobacco on Wednesday by announcing a ban  on smoking in public buildings.
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Fresh from introducing what he described as the world's toughest smoking ban, Italy's health minister is turning his attention to obesity.
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Italy's 2005 smoking ban has led to a sharp fall in heart attacks, researchers reported on Monday in a finding they said shows that such laws really do improve public health.
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Australia will ban smoking in all hotels  and bars, except those in the outback Northern Territory, in a  move to stop the death of hundreds of bartenders each year from  breathing second-hand smoke.
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OME, JAN. 20, 2005 .- Italians fumed all week over the no-smoking ban which went into effect Jan.
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Italy's tobacconists see sales drop after a smoking ban came into effect, retail figures show.
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A smoking ban in enclosed public places is to come into force in England on 1 July next year.
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Smoking has been banned in bars in the capitals of France and Germany. Send us your reaction.
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LONDON: Britain is to ban smoking in most public places, according to reports ahead of the launch of an ambitious goverment effort to legislate its way to better public health.
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Tobacco is celebrated in the French town of Bergerac - and the new smoking ban alarms traditionalists, Yvonne Murray reports.
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A public smoking ban shows a significant impact on hospital admissions for heart attacks, research suggests.
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PARIS, Jan. 2 -- In bars and cafes across Paris, in restaurants and casinos throughout France, the once-revered cigarette now is officially banned, relegating one of the Western world's last public smoking holdouts to the ashtray of history.
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The government has announced that it will become the latest European country to ban smoking in public spaces from next July, but a hardcore of opposition persists in the teeth of broad public support.