Australian smokers face bar ban
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Smoking in most Australian hotels and bars will be banned from 2007 to protect the health of bar workers.
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Italy's cafe and restaurant owners said on  Wednesday they would defy a smoking ban that comes into force  in the new year requiring them to call the police if their  customers continue to smoke.
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Reports suggest there are plans to force pubs and restaurants to apply for a special licence to allow smoking.
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Ban is lauded by health advocates, but critics see it as an attack on business owners, smokers.
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Scotland's five-month old smoking ban is  hitting pubs and bingo clubs, two British companies reported on  Friday, giving investors more clues what to expect when similar  legislation comes into force in England next year.
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Britain has unveiled tough anti-smoking proposals, which would ban tobacco in all workplaces and restaurants as well as in many pubs and bars.
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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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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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A compromise proposal would ban smoking in public buildings Â but not in pubs, bars or under beer tents.
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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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Scotland will ban smoking in enclosed public places, First Minister Jack McConnell said Wednesday, following Ireland in enacting a sweeping ban.
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Pubs group JD Wetherspoon says it is the "right time" to ban smoking in all of its pubs and bars from May 2006.
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By Lyndsay Moss, PA Health Correspondent and Emily Pennink, PA. The Government will today announce a ban on smoking in all workplaces and anywhere serving food.
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The Ministry for Health and Community Care denied the statement issued by the General Retailers & Traders Union (GRTU) that the Government is imposing a total smoking ban in bars and restaurants.
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Australian authorities enforce alcohol bans at Christmas celebrations on Sydney's Bondi beach for the first time.
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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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People caught smoking in bars and restaurants in Puerto Rico faced fines Friday as a ban on lighting up in enclosed public spaces took effect.