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• Non compliance with smoking ban implies fines 

Luanda - The non compliance with the smoking prohibition in public places, which was approved last Wednesday by the Angolan government, will imply fines that vary from 5 to 10 minimum salaries.

This measure covers institutions of central and local administration, hotels, restaurants, airports, night clubs, telephone booths, train stations and public toilets, said to the press the director of the legal department of the Ministry of Public Administration, Employment and Social Security (MAPESS), Jesus Maiato, on the fringes of the meeting of the Cabinet Council.

According to the decree of the government, it will only be allowed to smoke in places where the smoker is alone and therefore he/she will not harm the health of other people.

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• CLARKE BID FOR LEADER 

KEN Clarke confirmed last night he is to run for Tory leader - despite new details about his links to the tobacco industry. . . .

Earlier, it was revealed Mr Clarke represented British American Tobacco at a secret meeting in 1999 to discuss how to oppose a proposed World Health Organisation bid to ban cigarette advertising.

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