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February 9, 2012
Smoking_ban
The following articles have been tagged with "Smoking_ban":
MPs push for national smoking ban
Society: 26 May 11
Bundestag members from all sides of politics are joining forces to push for uniform anti-smoking laws nationwide. But any effort at fresh legislation is likely to face controversy.
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Pub smoking still widespread despite ban
Society: 3 May 11
Despite widespread smoking bans across Germany, more than four out of five corner pubs and bars still have patrons smoking inside, a study released Tuesday has found.
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Getting through a smoke-free Oktoberfest
Lifestyle: 28 Sep 10
The 200th anniversary Oktoberfest is the first to be completely smoke-free, thanks to Bavaria's new no exceptions smoking ban and solidarity among the beer-tent landlords. Ben Knight found out how the locals are coping.
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Drinking culture: Oktoberfest gets odour-eating bacteria
Society: 8 Sep 10
A smoking ban at Oktoberfest means visitors to Munich's beer bash won't leave smelling like an ashtray, but what about the stink of sweat, roasted chicken and stale alcohol? One businessman has the answer: an odour-eating bacteria.
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FDP calls for more referendums
Politics: 1 Aug 10
Cornelia Pieper, deputy chairman of the neo-liberal Free Democratic Party, has spoken out in favour of nationwide public initiatives and referendums, including a directly-elected German president.
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Oktoberfest to enforce strict smoking ban
Society: 19 Jul 10
The proprietors of tents at Munich’s world-famous beer festival Oktoberfest have agreed to implement Bavaria’s strict new smoking ban this year despite having a grace period till 2011.
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German media roundup: Hamburg's democratic revolt
Analysis & Opinion: 19 Jul 10
The decision by voters in Hamburg to torpedo plans to reform the city's schools sparked a decidedly mixed reaction from newspapers in The Local's media roundup on Monday.
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Traditions like smoking are not worth defending
Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jul 10
The opponents of Bavaria’s strict smoking ban have lost, just like most people whose arguments are based on tradition rather than reason, argues Malte Lehming from Der Tagesspiegel.
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Social Democrats push for national smoking ban
National: 6 Jul 10
The push for a tough, national smoking ban in Germany has gained momentum with the opposition Social Democrats calling on Tuesday for all bars and restaurants to become smoke-free.
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Bavarians approve stricter smoking ban
National: 5 Jul 10
The Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich is to become smoke-free after voters in a referendum Sunday in the southern German state of Bavaria opted for a total smoking ban.
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Bavaria votes on total smoking ban
Society: 4 Jul 10
The state of Bavaria is holding a referendum on Sunday to decide whether to impose a complete ban on smoking in all restaurants and bars. It would be the strictest ban in Germany.
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Growing ranks of smokers support ban
National: 23 Jun 10
An increasing number of smokers support Germany’s smoking ban in bars and restaurants, according to a study released by the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) this week.
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Karneval off to a chilly start
Society: 11 Feb 10
Tens of thousands of Jecken hit the streets in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate on Thursday morning to kick off several days of alcohol-fuelled Karneval celebrations ahead of Lent.
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The Local's year in review
National: 31 Dec 09
As 2010 kicks off, The Local takes a look back at some of the stories that caught our attention during the past year in Germany.
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Petition forces Bavarian smoking ban referendum
National: 3 Dec 09
Organisers of a petition for a referendum to strengthen Bavaria’s porous smoking ban are celebrating on Thursday, as preliminary results show they exceeded the amount of necessary signatures by several hundred thousand.
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Last gasp petition for Bavarian smoking ban edges to referendum
National: 30 Nov 09
With just three days left for people to sign a petition for a referendum to strengthen Bavaria’s porous smoking ban, organisers told The Local on Monday that they have collected more than 80 percent of the required signatures.
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High court upholds Bavaria's porous smoking ban
National: 1 Oct 09
Germany’s high court in Karlsruhe on Thursday ruled that Bavaria’s looser implementation of its smoking ban is constitutional.
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Beer sales fizzle to lowest level on record
National: 30 Jul 09
Beer sales for the first six months of 2009 have dropped to their lowest level since the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) started keeping track of the sales in 1991, the Wiesbaden office reported Thursday.
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Bavaria to filter smoking ban
Society: 15 Jul 09
Smokers in Bavaria rejoiced on Wednesday as the state’s parliament loosened the regulations on a smoking ban instituted 18 months ago.
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Steppin' out for a smoke
Analysis & Opinion: 11 May 09
English musician and Berlin resident Joe Jackson explains why he’s delighted Germany’s smoking ban appears to be unravelling faster than a self-rolled cigarette.
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One more drag
Lifestyle: 8 Apr 09
Remember the smoking ban? You might not have noticed, but it is still legal. Now a petition is being distributed to kill it off with a referendum. Ben Knight meets the campaigners who want to reclaim their right to nicotine suicide.
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German lose thirst for beer in tough economic times
Society: 10 Jan 09
The average German drank two litres less beer last year than in 2007, putting the breweries into a funk, with sales from 2008 two percent down from the previous year, the brewers’ association reports.
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Nobel laureate warns against relaxing smoking ban
National: 11 Oct 08
New German Nobel laureate for medicine, Harald zur Hausen, says the plan to relax the smoking ban in Bavaria would have dreadful consequences.
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Bavaria could relax smoking ban
Society: 9 Oct 08
An organization for the preservation of the Bavaria's tavern culture, the VEBWK, has said they are thrilled that state politicians are considering easing strict anti-smoking laws in pubs.
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CSU suffers huge losses in Bavarian vote
Politics: 28 Sep 08
The Bavarian sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a drubbing in a state election Sunday that will cost the Christian Social Union its decades-old absolute majority.
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Bavarian vote could end CSU's one-party rule
Politics: 27 Sep 08
The Christian Social Union (CSU) has long had a tight grip on power in the German state of Bavaria, but the conservatives could lose their majority in elections this Sunday.
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Smokers to enjoy final Oktoberfest before ban
Society: 19 Sep 08
There are few places left in Europe where you can still enjoy a cigarette and a tipple, but the huge beer tents of the 175th annual Oktoberfest starting in Munich this Saturday are one of them.
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Why Angie ain't no Maggie
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Sep 08
Forbes magazine recently proclaimed Angela Merkel to be the most powerful woman in the world. Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, explains why he finds it a strange choice.
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Berlin gradually bans patio heaters
National: 31 Aug 08
Mid-winter outdoor eating and drinking – and smoking – in the warm thanks to the power of patio heaters looks to have its days numbers in Berlin at least, with several city districts set to ban them.
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German state health official quits over lax smoking ban
Society: 11 Aug 08
A senior official in the North-Rhine Westphalian Health Ministry resigned on Monday over plans to loosen anti-smoking regulations, which the official said causes 700 deaths in the western German state each year.
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Germans favour national smoking ban
Society: 3 Aug 08
A wide majority of Germans want a comprehensive smoking ban instead of state-by-state rules, German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday.
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Germany needs a comprehensive smoking ban
Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jul 08
The Consitutional Court ruling on smoking in bars and restaurants shows Germany needs a comprehensive ban to ensure public health, argues Marlies Volkmer, member of parliament for the Social Democratic Party.
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German high court overturns smoking ban
National: 30 Jul 08
In a ruling likely to have nationwide implications, Germany's high court on Wednesday ruled that a new smoking ban in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Berlin was unconstitutional.
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German bars flouting smoking ban by converting to private clubs
National: 11 Jul 08
Restaurants and bars in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and Bavaria have found a way to legally flout the country's new smoking ban by converting their businesses to smoking clubs.
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Berlin to enforce smoking ban halfheartedly
Society: 30 Jun 08
Berlin is supposed to begin fining restaurant and bar patrons for smoking on July 1, but the city hasn't managed to mobilize adequate personnel for the task.
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German smoking ban crippling bars and pubs
National: 7 Jun 08
A partial smoking ban in Germany has led to plummeting profits at pubs, bars and discotheques, according to new figures from the country's Federal Statistics Office.
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Orderly Germans rebel against public smoking ban
Society: 29 May 08
In Europe, even the Italians and French are respecting public smoking bans, but Germany's bid to implement one is proving as relapse-prone as the New Year's resolutions of nicotine addicts.
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Smoking ban dents German cigarette sales
Business & Money: 16 May 08
Tobacco companies are seeing sales in Germany drop after a ban on smoking in public offices, bars and restaurants, according to media reports on Friday.
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German smokers protest ban in Berlin
National: 27 Apr 08
Several hundred smokers, cafe and pub owners puffed their way through the Brandenburg Gate and Berlin this weekend to protest the smoking ban.
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Pubs complain German smoking ban hits trade
Society: 18 Apr 08
Several months into Germany’s decidedly half-hearted smoking ban in bars and restaurants, many small pub owners are reportedly suffering from a drastic decline in business.
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Tobacco sales down in Germany
Society: 16 Apr 08
The number of cigarettes sold in Germany for the first quarter of 2008 continued to go down according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on Wednesday.
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Bavarian smoking ban called a healthy success
National: 10 Apr 08
Health officials in the German state of Bavaria expect the smoking ban there to prevent 1,000 heart attacks, Health Minister Otmar Bernhard announced Thursday.
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Smoking ban drives German barkeeper to suicide
National: 8 Apr 08
A German barkeeper who hanged himself left behind a suicide note blaming a new public smoking ban for his decision, Bild newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Survey: Germans positive about new smoking ban
National: 9 Mar 08
German smokers and nonsmokers alike may be coming to terms with a new smoking ban, according to a survey by the news magazine Focus.
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Puff-happy Berlin flouts smoking ban
Lifestyle: 29 Feb 08
Germany might have a reputation as an orderly and law-abiding place abroad, but as Naomi Kresge reports, bars in Berlin are openly flouting the country’s new smoking ban.
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Smoking ban discontinued in Rhineland-Palatinate
Politics: 12 Feb 08
Smokers and bar owners won a victory in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Germans rebel against smoking ban
National: 6 Feb 08
Smoking ban facing civil disobedience in a nation known for its rule sticklers.
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Violent youths raise questions on immigration
Society: 24 Jan 08
Wave of reports of violent crimes committed by young people with immigrant backgrounds brings debate on immigration to forefront.
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