Smokers butt out in Germany and France
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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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The European Commission launches graphic images showing the damage smoking can do to people's health.
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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 &#151; and floated the prospect of special "smoking rooms."
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BRUSSELS, -- The European Union unveiled a new antismoking campaign that calls on governments to put both horrific and humorous pictures on cigarette packs to deter people from smoking.
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Health officials are hoping smokers take heed to warnings and join the Great American Smokeout. The national day to quit smoking is Thursday and locally, health department
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Following in the footsteps of municipalities like New York, Los Angeles and Ireland, Italians have now decided to make their bars, clubs and many other public spaces smoke-free. Even though smoking is tightly ...
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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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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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Swiss teenagers smoke more cannabis than their peers in every other European country, a survey has said, casting a pall over the country's prim and wholesome image.
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It's crunch time for many Spanish bars, restaurants and nightclubs, the hearths of national life: They must create sealed-off smoking areas or ban the butt altogether.
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From parks to bars to the workplace, more states are proposing far-reaching bans that would limit public smoking.
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Office workers took their cigarette breaks on the street Monday after a strict law banning smoking in bars, restaurants, offices and other public spaces came into force in Italy.
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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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Today is the American Cancer Society&#39;s 28th Great American Smokeout. The event is certainly a smoke-out -- clean air laws kick smokers outdoors for their nicotine fixes.
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Seniors are leading the way in the new battle to ban smoking from communal environments.
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Outside the Old HagÃ¥tÃ±a Grill, a group of people chatted and smoked on a bench. A number of cigarette butts were scattered on the streets outside the restaurant.
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TORONTO - Royal Canadian Legion halls and so-called private clubs will have to butt out under anti-smoking legislation the Ontario government plans to introduce this month, Health Minister George Smitherman said Tuesday.