Ban shakes French tobacco town
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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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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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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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Ban is lauded by health advocates, but critics see it as an attack on business owners, smokers.
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Smokers and restaurant owners in Italy were fuming in a rather different way after a tough new law that bans smoking in public places.
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PARIS -- About a dozen history and political science students huddled against the blustery cold outside the main entrance to the Sorbonne university, the bastion of Left Bank intellectualism. The topic, as they puffed away: France's new law banning smoking in public places such as schools and...
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OME, JAN. 20, 2005 .- Italians fumed all week over the no-smoking ban which went into effect Jan.
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A leading cigarette company says its sales fell sharply in the Irish Republic since the smoking ban.
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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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A bonfire celebration in York, the home town of Guy Fawkes, has been banned on health and safety grounds, the local council said on Tuesday.
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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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HAVANA -- The country known for it high-quality cigars banned smoking of all kinds in public places yesterday, as the Cuban government acknowledged the health risk of tobacco.
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SOFIA, Jan 8: The Bulgarian government banned smoking in some public places as of January 1, but in a country where half of the population smokes both restaurant owners and smokers are resisting the government ...
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Businesses that offer customers shisha water pipes to smoke tobacco are waging an 11th-hour bid for an exemption to a smoking ban that comes into force in England on Sunday.
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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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Smokers in Italy are lighting up in the streets as a new anti-smoking law comes into effect but some remain defiant, with the first diehard puffer fined for flouting the ban just minutes after midnight.
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France and Spain were hit on Tuesday by a dioxin contamination scare that has forced the closure of almost 200 Dutch farms after the cancer-causing toxin was found in animal feed.