Smoking Ban Clears the Air, but It Befogs Italians' Mood
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Smokers and restaurant owners in Italy were fuming in a rather different way on Monday after a tough new law that bans smoking in public places - one of the strictest in Europe - went into effect.
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Italians, banned from smoking in indoor  public places, were forced to take their habit outdoors Monday  and one persistent puffer became the first to pay for breaking  the law after it took effect at midnight.
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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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Britain's smoking ban poses a crisis for the shisha bars where Muslims and others puff on a water pipes in an alcohol-free environment
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Air pollution in Italy's cities has reached alarmingly high levels, with one study comparing the effects of a one-day stroll around Rome or Florence to smoking half a dozen cigarettes.
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PARIS -- About a dozen history and political science students huddled against the blustery cold outside the main entrance to the Sorbonne university, the bastion of Left Bank intellectualism. The topic, as they puffed away: France's new law banning smoking in public places such as schools and...
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What do hardened smokers think of the smoking ban which comes into force tomorrow? "It's a dictatorship. It's worse than Russia."
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Never mind that Austria's lenient new anti-smoking law actually exempts bars and restaurants, the country's smokers and tobacconists have still declared all-out war against the measure, which went into effect ...
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Smoking in public places and places of work is now banned in all of Britain with England&#39;s entrance into an ever-expanding club of nations that bar the habit.
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Smokers in Italy are lighting up in the streets as a new anti-smoking law comes into effect but some remain defiant, with the first diehard puffer fined for flouting the ban just minutes after midnight.
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Turkey's parliament approved on Thursday a sweeping ban on smoking in bars and restaurants, but commentators say enforcing the new law could prove difficult in a nation long addicted to nicotine.
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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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BERLIN/PARIS  - For years, anyone needing a nicotine fix in a German pub or French cafe didn't even have to light up -- the air was already so full of smoke that they only had to open their mouth and inhale.
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A movement to restrict smoking in apartments and condominiums is having some success.
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New Zealanders breathed a little  more easily on Friday, although smokers grumbled, as it became  the third country in the world to ban smoking in bars and  restaurants.
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DUESSELDORF, Germany -- At the international airport in this western German city, smokers are shunned. If you want to light up, you're restricted to a handful of bars in the terminal, or else stuck puffing on the dingy street outside.
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A ban on smoking in public spaces came into effect Thursday, a change that may alter the image of a country defined in part by its smoky cafes and cigarette-puffing intellectuals.