A Global Guide to Smoke-Unfriendly Places

November 10th, 2005

From European Cigar Cult Magazine comes a handy guide to anti-smoking laws around the world. If your holiday plans include a visit to any of these places, your cigar lighter will get very little use:

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European Union Plans

Brussels is considering an EU-wide smoking ban in restaurants and other enclosed spaces. The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has called upon the EU Commission to classify tobacco smoke a first-category carcinogenic substance (equivalent to asbestos and benzene) as soon as possible.

EU Public Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou told the EU policy portal EurActiv that it was his ambition to have smoking bans introduced in all EU member states by the end of his term in 2009.

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