France's smoking ban takes effect
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France becomes the latest European country to  introduce a ban on smoking in  workplaces.
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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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A ban on the sale of all tobacco products comes into force in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
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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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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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The BBC's Tamsin Smith in Rome watches anti-smoking campaigners at work as the ban takes effect.
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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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Smoking in pubs, restaurants and the office is expected to be banned later thanks to new Government plans to improve the nation&#39;s health.
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Afghanistan may be the world's largest producer of heroin, but the government has taken the first step towards to a ban on smoking in public places.
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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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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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Smoking has been banned in bars in the capitals of France and Germany. Send us your reaction.
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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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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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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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GUWAHATI, India  - The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan  banned smoking in public and tobacco sales on Friday, the first  country in the world to do so.
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Spain extends its restrictions on smoking by introducing a partial ban in bars and restaurants.