Croatia's 'Big Brother' not allowed to smoke
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Croatia's first Big Brother reality television show is fuming over a warning from the health ministry that participants are not allowed to smoke.
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A plan to roll and smoke the world's largest joint was cancelled at short notice in Amsterdam when the organisers realised they could be breaking the law.
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European legislators have voted to set up sealed smokers' rooms in their Strasbourg and Brussels buildings after a voluntary ban on lighting up failed, officials said on Tuesday.
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Photographer Frank Blum puffed contentedly on a hand-rolled cigarette in a cafe in central Berlin, blatantly ignoring a ban that went into effect in most of Germany this month.
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Ramada Jarvis says smoking will not be allowed in most of its rooms and public spaces by next year.
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ZAGREB, Croatia  - A 13-year-old girl who paid off three older teens so they wouldn't tell her parents she smoked soon found herself in even worse trouble: the teens threatened to kill her father if she didn't fork over more money, police said.
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Smoking is forbidden in nearly three out of four U.S. households, a dramatic increase from the 43 percent of homes that prohibited smoking a decade ago, the federal government reported Thursday.
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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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Ministers suppressed an official report on the dangers of passive smoking to prevent public pressure growing for a ban on smoking in public, campaigners claimed yesterday.
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The world's biggest tobacco consumer, China, says it will not allow any new cigarette factories to be built.
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The U.S. isn't the only country cutting back on public smoking
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'Incompatible with community principles' Italy cannot use criminal law to stop gaming companies licensed in another EU nation from taking bets in the country, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday. Italian restrictions are incompatible with Community principles, the court said.â¦
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The Government is unlikely to emulate Ireland in introducing an outright ban on smoking in public places. In March this year. Ireland became the first European country to ban smoking in workplaces, including pubs and restaurants.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba  - A major landlord in the   Prairie city of Winnipeg will not let new tenants smoke in   their homes or on their balconies under new rules designed in   part to cut maintenance costs, an official said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW - The upper house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have banned public beer consumption.  The bill already had been approved by the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, which is dominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.
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Indonesia has banned a documentary on the once volatile Aceh province from being screened at an international film festival on the grounds that it could disturb security, the festival's organizers said.
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European countries with anti-smoking laws that either ban or sharply limit smoking in restaurants and cafes: