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(Non-)smoker's summer guide to Europe's bans

('Emilie Prattico',) — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:29:37 -0000

While you’re carefully planning your summer holidays, it might be worth considering what destinations will best suit your needs - be thee a lover of those tobacco-filled thin paper cylinders or not

European slogans: 'Smoking kills'

('Sarah Truesdale',) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:12:07 -0000

It leaves traces of tar in European lungs, but cigarettes are also impregnated with the bitter odour of the vocabulary of European tongues. Idiomatic expression of the week, plus audio

Photos: Cuba as Castro retires at 81

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Post-election images from the provincial tourist town of Viñales in the west, to the semi-tropical cacao plantations of Baracoa in the east. The Cuban leader will not run again as president at the National Assembly on 24 February

Czech smokers: pubs welcome Europe’s last indoor puffs

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0000

The smoking ban, in force in many of the 27 EU member states, may soon take hold in the Czech Republic. Prague’s anti-smoking lobby steps up its fight against the fog. Plus a smoking ban guide map in the EU

No more smoking in Paris' bistros

('Kate Martin',) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0000

On 1 January 2008, France followed Italy, Ireland, Great Britain and Spain by passing a law against smoking in public places. We went to see how things are coming along on the other side of the Alps. A report from the City of Lights