Au Revoir to the Smoke-Filled French Cafe
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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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Dropping into one of Amsterdam&#39;s trademark brown cafes, I found myself lulled for a moment by the illusion that things were as they always had been.
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By time-hallowed tradition, the English pub evokes an image of low beams, warm ales and the toxic swirling smog of tobacco smoke. But not, perhaps, for much longer.
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Two chefs from Japan are attracting discriminating diners to their restaurants in the most chic part of Paris - and serving them French cuisine.
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ACTON -- As the chef-owner of Coriander Bistro, a French restaurant in Sharon, Kevin Crawley knows the importance of a good cup of coffee.
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PARIS, Sep 19 (IPS) - New evidence on the harmful effects of passive  smoking has led France to consider a total ban on smoking in work  and public places.
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It was not long after the gruff man with darting eyes demanded a cup of coffee at her restaurant that Revital Biton heard the blast.
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Jean-Paul Sartre smoked. So did Colette, Cocteau, Camus and Coco Chanel. One of the most memorable scenes in French films is Jean-Paul Belmondo lifting his head, dragging on a cigarette and rubbing his thumb ...Comment
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The coffee roaster cuts its losses to refocus on its strengths.
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Arsonists set fire to a Jewish soup kitchen in central Paris early on Sunday morning and daubed Nazi symbols on the building, police said, in the latest anti-Semitic act in France.
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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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BERLIN/PARIS  - For years, anyone needing a nicotine fix in a German pub or French cafe didn't even have to light up -- the air was already so full of smoke that they only had to open their mouth and inhale.
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Smokers took advantage of a one-day grace period and savored their last cigarettes over morning coffee in cafes across France as a ban against lighting up in bars and restaurants took effect Tuesday.
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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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A Jewish social centre in Paris has been set on fire in what the authorities say was an anti-Semitic arson attack. No-one was injured in the attack but the centre, on the ground floor of a building, was badly damaged.
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What's that nice smell? For drinkers and diners in France on Wednesday, the answer was fresh air. France reinvented itself with a new ban on smoking in cafes, restaurants and night spots, the most drastic measure yet to curb the habit in a country where cigarettes were long a potent lifestyle symbol.
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One Fool has cooled toward the coffee king.