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Ireland's National Ban On Smoking

New York Daily News:

Smokers hid in toilet stalls Monday as Ireland's ban on tobacco in the workplace -- including the country’s 10,000 usually smoky pubs -- began its first divisive day.

... Health Minister Micheal Martin, who pushed for three years to ban workplace smoking, celebrated with anti-smoking activists at Bewley's tea house in downtown Dublin. He predicted other European nations would soon follow Ireland's example.

Ireland's sweeping nationwide ban is the world's strictest and goes well beyond statewide measures such as those in California and Delaware, which prohibit smoking in bars and restaurants.

In the blue-collar pubs of north Dublin, Martin's crusade provoked both joy and fury.

"This is the worst idea any Irish government’s ever had," said Gerry O’Connor, 32, a prison guard sitting sullenly in a corner of John Doyle’s pub. He'd just been busted trying to sneak a smoke in the pub's lavatory.

Posted by Norm M. Wada at March 30, 2004 10:13 PM | TrackBack
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