Paris and Berlin ban cafe smoking
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Smoking bans come into effect in pubs and restaurants in much of Germany and all of France.
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The EU health commissioner calls for member states to copy Ireland and ban smoking in indoor public spaces.
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Liverpool's city council on Wednesday approved a ban on smoking in all indoor workplaces, including bars and restaurants, taking the initial step toward becoming the first British city with such a rule.
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Russia's upper house of parliament approved a bill on Wednesday to restrict smoking in public places in one of the world's heaviest smoking nations.
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Beijing is to ban smoking in 70 percent of the city's hotel rooms as it strives to clean up its air before this August's Olympic Games.
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A ban on smoking in public places is being enforced in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, for the first time.
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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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Tobacco is celebrated in the French town of Bergerac - and the new smoking ban alarms traditionalists, Yvonne Murray reports.
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A parliamentary panel in cigarette-friendly France called Tuesday for the government to ban smoking in public places like cafes and restaurants in less than a year _ and floated the prospect of special 'smoking ...Comment
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Something about smoking seems very French, but a parliamentary committee approved a proposal to ban it in public areas.
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After Smoke Free Day and Car Free Day comes Sarkozy Free Day.
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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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European countries with anti-smoking laws that either ban or sharply limit smoking in restaurants and cafes:
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Manuel Bussac predicts he will smoke more and work less when France's ban on smoking in public spaces kicks in Thursday. His firefighter friend, Bernard Geoffrey, says the ban will help him quit his pack-a-day habit.
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PARIS, Sep 19 (IPS) - New evidence on the harmful effects of passive  smoking has led France to consider a total ban on smoking in work  and public places.
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Smokers in Italy took their last puffs in smoky bars and trattorias Sunday, hours before the start of one of Europe's toughest laws against smoking in public places.
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The World Health Organization called on Tuesday for a global ban on smoking at work and in enclosed public places.