In Illinois, a Ban Sends Smokers Into the Cold
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On Tuesday, Illinois banned smoking inside bars, restaurants, bowling alleys, pool halls, casinos and in nearly every other public place.
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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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FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick Health Department is trying to clear the air about the province&#39;s new smoking ban as the countdown begins to for public places to go smoke free.
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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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A ban on the sale of all tobacco products comes into force in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
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The Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF) has welcomed the Scottish Executiveâs decision to ban smoking in all enclosed public places in Scotland.
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Smokers bemoaning the new ban on lighting up in pubs and other indoor public spaces in England have a new sanctuary: Stoke-on-Trent.
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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 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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An intensive stop-smoking program with at least three months of counseling and free drugs can help smokers kick the habit, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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A ban on smoking in virtually all enclosed public places has come into force throughout England.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - Smokers in Winnipeg in search of an apartment will soon have fewer buildings to choose from.  Globe General Agencies, which manages about 5,000 units across the city, will ban smoking for all new tenants moving in as of Oct. 1.
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TORONTO (CP) - Bar and corner-store owners winced while anti-tobacco activists celebrated Wednesday as the Ontario government introduced a provincewide ban on smoking, part of what it considers the toughest anti-tobacco strategy on the continent.
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The level of cancer-causing particles in the air is much higher in smoky bars and casinos than on truck-filled highways and city streets, according to the first study comparing indoor air quality before and after a smoking ban.
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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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Millions of Chileans will now be forced to take their cigarette breaks outside because of a tough nationwide anti-smoking law that took effect Monday.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - Manitoba businesses say a list of fines the provincial government can now levy under the province&#39;s anti-smoking law could result in multiple penalties for a single offence.