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BAN LEAVES SPANISH SMOKERS OUT IN THE COLD

Cigarette-loving Spaniards had to head outdoors Sunday as the first day of the new year ushered in a nation-wide ban on smoking in public places.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...eban060101.html

Smoking Ban

As a smoker, its getting frustrating that I can't smoke any where, but I can understand the desire to keep smoke away from non-smokers, it is lethal. I think that in the future, possibly near future, many countries are going to follow spains lead. I know several states in the US have already enacted similar laws banning smoking inside public places.

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PUBLIC SMOKING BANS HIT ONT., QUE.

Smokers in Quebec and Ontario will be spending more time outside as laws that ban smoking in all enclosed public places kicked in at midnight Tuesday.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/20...-provinces.html

Smoking Ban

I live in Nebraska and there is a smoking ban on public places here and in five years they don't comply they will be fined and possibly jailed. I don't know what is planned in the future but every day I struggle to breath with out the second hand smoke.

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Smoking Ban

I think more and more places will eventually become smoke-free places. In Liverpool, England, some 45 miles from where I live, they have had this ban for a while. They were used as a tester case, so that other areas could watch, observe, and follow suit if necessary.
Where I live, which is near Manchester, the area in Manchester will become smoke-free from next year, I believe a lot of other areas will eventually do the same too.

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FRANCE MOVES TO LIMIT SMOKING

France will ban smoking in many public locations in February, and will extend the prohibition to restaurants, clubs and bars in early 2008, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Sunday.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...ce-smoking.html