EU legislators disobey own smoking ban
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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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Smokers' rights groups call for some exceptions to England's smoking ban which becomes law next week.
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A ban on smoking at work, in restaurants and cafes will be announced by the Government today. But smoking will still be allowed in public houses that do not serve food.
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The EU health commissioner calls for member states to copy Ireland and ban smoking in indoor public spaces.
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According to media reports, the British Government is not going to follow Ireland&#39;s lead an initiate a national smoking ban in public places.
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Ministers are told Scotland's publicans will fight "tooth and nail" to stop plans for an outright ban on smoking.
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Italians, banned from smoking in indoor public places, were forced to take their habit outdoors Monday and one persistent puffer became the first to pay for breaking the law after it took effect at midnight.
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But the days of Spanish-style political horsetrading -- done in a tobacco-fueled haze -- ended Wednesday at Parliament as tough new anti-smoking regulations came into force.
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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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A proposed photo on a package of cigarettes is shown on this released photo by the European Commission in Brussels, Friday, Oct.22.
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The head of the Portuguese agency responsible for enforcing a new ban on smoking in public was seen lighting up at a New Year party, breaking the law on the first day it came into effect.
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European Union regulators unveiled 42 anti-smoking pictures that EU nations can use on cigarette packages to limit the market for tobacco companies including Altria Group Inc.
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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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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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Tobacco is celebrated in the French town of Bergerac - and the new smoking ban alarms traditionalists, Yvonne Murray reports.
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Liverpool city councillors decide to push for a new law outlawing smoking in public spaces.
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Smoking in public is set to be severely restricted in Russia under new legislation backed by the upper house of parliament.