Smokers butt out in Germany and France
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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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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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French are divided over the nationwide ban on smoking in public places that goes into effect on Thursday
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  -- The European Union unveiled a new anti-smoking campaign that calls on governments to put both horrific and humorous pictures on cigarette packs to deter people from smoking.
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(Buffalo, NY, November 18, 2004) - - The American Cancer Society is honoring some Western New Yorkers who are trying to help others kick their smoking habit.
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What's that nice smell? For drinkers and diners in France on Wednesday, the answer was fresh air. France reinvented itself with a new ban on smoking in cafes, restaurants and night spots, the most drastic measure yet to curb the habit in a country where cigarettes were long a potent lifestyle symbol.
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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.
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Europe started 2008 with a raft of new laws against smoking, air pollution and even junk food adverts, but some grumbled that the New Year's resolutions from the "nanny state" cramped their style.
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Swiss teenagers smoke more cannabis than their peers in every other European country, a survey said Thursday, casting a pall over the country's prim and wholesome image.
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Smoking restrictions tighten this week as France tries to drive the once-ubiquitous cigarette from public spaces, but many smokers are angry and deeply suspicious of government attempts to coax them into ...Comment
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German anti-smoking activists are trying to bring charges against 89-year-old former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his wife for breaking a new smoking ban in Hamburg, the group said on Friday.
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A law that would ban smoking nearly everywhere in Ontario but in people&#39;s homes isn&#39;t going down well among smokers on London&#39;s busiest bar stretch.
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Germany may outlaw smoking in cars  because it is a health hazard and a safety risk, the  government's commissioner for substance abuse Sabine Baetzing  said.
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French lawmakers are trying to make France's smoky cafes a thing of the past. A parliamentary panel called Tuesday for a government ban on smoking in enclosed public areas within a year &#151; and floated the idea of "hermetically sealed" smoking rooms for those who want to light up.
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Germany is considering outlawing smoking in cars to protect passengers, particularly children, the government's narcotics commissioner Sabine Baetzing has said.
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France's most drastic measure to curb smoking went into effect Wednesday with a full ban on lighting up in cafes, restaurants and discotheques, a sea change for a country where the cigarette came to symbolize the French way of life.
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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 ...