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• Company makes smoking employees work longer hours 

A company in Carinthia, Austria is making its smoking employees work longer hours. The car supplier, Mahle are demanding that smokers sign in and out of their cigarette breaks and make the time up at the end of the day.

The company reportedly loses around one million Euros every year as a result of the regular smoking breaks taken by their employees. Those who go to smoke outside of the official break time are now checked in and out of the building.

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Darting flame puts carpenter in clinic  

A 32-year-old carpenter was injured in an accident at work yesterday (Mon).

The man was working with insulation foam at a flat in Rohrbach, Upper Austria, while smoking a cigarette. He suffered burns to his face from a darting flame caused when ashes ignited the foam. He managed to put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher and water himself.

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Schwarzenegger fined for smoking in Austria 

Ex-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was fined 200 euros twice for puffing his cigar at two Austrian airports on a visit to his mother country in June, the daily Krone Zeitung reported Tuesday.

The offences took place at Graz and Salzburg, the newspaper said.

The former Mister Universe and actor-turned politician may get away without paying the $280-dollar penalties as Austria and the United States have no cooperation agreement on these type of offences.

But the Krone Zeitung said Graz authorities have not given up hope and have sent the fines to the US embassy in Vienna with the aim of bringing the celebrity to account for contravening its smoking law.

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91 Prozent der Gäste stört das Rauchen in Lokalen  

A survey of the Medical University of Vienna in 1590 visitors from Vienna restaurants showed that 91 percent of the guests to feel bothered by cigarette smoke. Among non-smokers there are almost one hundred percent, among smokers, more than 80 percent. According to the study, says the majority of respondents also called for a general smoking ban. This result disagrees with the catering trade association, however.

The majority of respondents called for a general smoking ban in bars, it said on Monday at a press conference in Vienna. "We have surveyed 1590 people in 81 venues in Vienna. There were about 52 percent women, 48 percent of men. Non smoking were 52 percent, ten percent of light smokers and smokers 38 percent," said Mary- Anna Gasser, author of a thesis, under which they conducted the survey. The survey was conducted using a questionnaire, which was created by Institute of Medical Psychology in Graz.

Whether or smoking Non smoking, smoky bars and bad air and eating as "background music" in the form of later smelly clothes are obviously "out". Maria Anna Gasser: "More than 90 percent of respondents feel annoyed by smoke in any form in the non-smokers, there are almost one hundred percent, even among smokers over 80 percent.."

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Raucher sheriffs in Salzburg und Graz zeigen Arnie an 

Arnold Schwarzenegger's trademark, the cigar has, after his visit to Austria in June a curious sequel. First it was just rumors, but now it is official: They have "smoker's sheriff 'around Dietmar Erlacher reported him in Salzburg and Graz. "First offender" Schwarzenegger twice to pay the minimum fine of 200 €.

Austria sees smoke at the top "smoking Sheriff" Dietmar Erlacher red "supporters have been watching the movement of my Lord Schwarzenegger, as he at the airports in Salzburg and Graz in the Non smoking- Areas has puffing a cigar. I immediately got on the display, finally, is he a role model for young people, "said Erlacher the" crown ".

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger Fined For Smoking Cigars at Austrian Airports 

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was fined twice for smoking cigars at two airports on a recent visit to his Austrian homeland, the Krone Zeitung newspaper reported Tuesday.

The Austrian-born actor-turned-politician received the €200 ($280) fines for lighting up at airports in Salzburg and Graz.

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Japan Tobacco to close tobacco plant in Austria around year-end  

Japan Tobacco Inc has decided to shut down a plant in Austria at the end of this year or early next year to improve overseas production efficiency.

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Japan Tobacco closes Hainburg factory 

Japan Tobacco today announced that it will close its cigarette manufacturing factory in Hainburg, Austria, between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012.

The closure of the factory, with an annual production capacitiy of approximately 10 billion cigarettes - mainly of the brands Benson & Hedges and Memphis - will increase the efficiency of JT's international tobacco business, says the company.

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Paralysed smoker dies in flat blaze 

A paralysed man perished when a fire ripped through an apartment in Graz yesterday evening (Weds).

Paramedics failed to resuscitate the 52-year-old man after firemen entered the burning flat in the Styrian city. A female neighbour and the wheelchair-bound man's sister had to be hospitalised suffering from serious smoke intoxication. The women had tried to extinguish the blaze before fire fighters reached the scene.

Investigations are ongoing, but officials said today that the fire could have been caused by a cigarette the sleeping man dropped. His sister told police he was a heavy smoker.

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Dog End  

Customs cops bit off more than they could chew when they opened a cigarette smuggler's car boot - and found his loot being guarded by a giant German shepherd.

The 110 lbs beast had been crammed in on top of 37,000 packets of cigarettes being trafficked across the Romanian border in Bors to avoid tax.

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Smoking turns housewife into human torch - General News - Austrian Times Online News - English Newspaper 

A 40-year-old woman suffered serious burns when she lighted a cigarette after filling a basin with petrol.

The hosuewife was rushed to a clinic after the incident at her home in the Styrian spa town of Bad Waltersdorf

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Coresta study group meeting 

Coresta will hold its Smoke Science & Product Technology Study Group Meeting 2011 at the Convention Centre in Graz, Austria, from 9 to 13 October 2011.

The Product Technology and Smoke Science Study Groups wish to encourage the submission of papers on product testing and evaluation, and would particularly welcome papers on the development and validation of analytical methods, for example, collaborative study design, statistical evaluation and issues of variability and robustness.

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• Opposition parties want smoking referendum  

Austrian opposition politicians called on the Austrian government to hold a referendum over smoking in pubs and restaurants today (Tues).

This comes after the majority of citizens in the German State of Bavaria supported a total smoking ban in locals and eateries.

Greens, Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) showed rare unity in appealing on Social Democratic (SPÖ) Health Minister Alois Stöger to scrap the existing ruling and hold a referendum.

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Diplomat smuggled cigarettes from Kosovo 

Austria's customs service have detained a foreign diplomat accredited to Serbia and his driver for cigarette smuggling.

They are suspected of smuggling more than 25,000 cartons of cigarettes worth about EUR 1mn in the past two years, Austrian media have reported.

The cigarettes were seized by the customs in Graz in cooperation with their colleagues from Linz. According to their statements, the diplomat accredited to Serbia was in charge of the smuggling.

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Research and Markets: Tobacco in Austria  

The Tobacco in Austria report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data (2002-2007), allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be the new legislative, distribution or pricing issues. Forecasts to 2012 illustrate how the market is set to change.

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