Bulgaria Struggles to Kick Chain-Smoking Habit
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Milena hates herself for it, but she  lights another cigarette anyway.
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The government has announced that it will become the latest European country to ban smoking in public spaces from next July, but a hardcore of opposition persists in the teeth of broad public support.
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Smokers with coronary heart disease who suffer a heart attack or severe angina, rapidly benefit from kicking the smoking habit, German investigators report.
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BUCHAREST, Jul 20 (IPS) - A recent shooting in Bulgarian capital Sofia  involving Serbian Zemun clan members has brought into focus the  seriousness of Bulgaria's problems with organised crime.
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Bulgarian tobacco shares and Black Sea resort operator Albena plummeted Wednesday driving the country's blue-chip index 0.43% down to 625.31 points.
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Danish youngsters get drunk most,  their Czech peers like to smoke cannabis, the Irish are more  prone to binge-drinking and young Turks are the cleanest-living  in Europe, according to a new survey.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings _ along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings _ have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.Comment
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A chain of debts within the government supply system has caused a cigarette shortage in Cuba's second-largest city, driving up the black market price of smokes, Cuban news media reported Saturday.
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The U.S. isn't the only country cutting back on public smoking
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By EMMA ROSS    MUNICH, Germany  -- More than half of European smokers who suffer a heart attack, bypass surgery or other serious heart problem are still smoking a year later, despite anti-smoking campaigns and doctors' advice to stop, a new study found.    Experts said the findings, presented Monday at Europe's largest medical conference, indicate that smoking cessation efforts are failing many of the most vulnerable victims...
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LAZARAT, Albania  - Cannabis plants lay stacked up   like Christmas trees around a police station near this remote   Albanian village, a humbling sight for growers who two years   ago took pot-shots at an Italian police helicopter.
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The European Unionâs future Health Chief Markos Kyprianou has vowed to fight smoking, insisting that cigarettes are one of the greatest evils the European Union should strive to put a stop to.
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Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia has given the go ahead for the construction of a $1.2bn oil pipeline that will pass through the Balkan peninsula.
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A sweeping new global report, released by the World Health Organization today in New York City, urges governments to get tough on the tobacco epidemic before it's too late
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Business: 28 November 2004, Sunday. Bulgaria's tobacco giant Bulgartabac invited an open bidding public tender for its shares in seven subsidiaries, the company announced.
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Danish youngsters get drunk most, their Czech peers like to smoke cannabis, the Irish are more prone to binge-drinking and young Turks are the cleanest-living in Europe, according to a new survey.
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The EU resists Balkan pressure to restart two nuclear reactors at Bulgaria's Kozloduy plant.