Smoking Ban Takes Effect Across Italy
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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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Australia will ban smoking in all hotels and bars, except those in the outback Northern Territory, in a move to stop the death of hundreds of bartenders each year from breathing second-hand smoke.
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The Health Secretary, John Reid yesterday surprised medical organisations and the public by announcing a complete ban on smoking in almost all enclosed public places.
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Scotland became the latest country to take a stand against tobacco on Wednesday by announcing a ban on smoking in public buildings.
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Portugal plans to follow the example of other European nations and introduce legislation by the end of the month to ban smoking in most public places, including bars, restaurants and workplaces.
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Tobacco is celebrated in the French town of Bergerac - and the new smoking ban alarms traditionalists, Yvonne Murray reports.
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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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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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Smoking bans and fines come into effect in bars and restaurants in much of Germany and all of France.
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Seniors are leading the way in the new battle to ban smoking from communal environments.
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Smokers and businesses in Italy threaten to defy a ban on smoking in public places  coming into effect on Monday.
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Italy's restaurant and bar owners are fuming over a smoking ban that could consign to the history books the Dolce Vita image of divas and Latin Lovers idling with a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the ...
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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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NSW Premier Bob Carr has announced that smoking in pubs and clubs will be banned throughout the state from 2007, following similar moves in Queensland.
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Smokers across England have sparked up at work and in the pub for the last time as the smoking ban begins.
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Italy's 2005 smoking ban has led to a sharp fall in heart attacks, researchers reported on Monday in a finding they said shows that such laws really do improve public health.
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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.