Smoking ban goes into effect June 5

May 30, 2007
By Steve Roman

TALLINN - Estonia’s restaurant and bar denizens are looking to June 5 with either delight or dread, depending on how they feel about the nation’s new smoking ban which takes effect that day. Under the law smoking in restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs and casinos will be allowed only on outdoor terraces or in closed-off smoking rooms where there will be no service. The health protection measure puts Estonia, like Latvia and Lithuania, among the growing club of European countries to make their publ ...





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