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· Vehicles/Travel
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· Niger
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Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2008-09-12
Intro: Niger's government has issued a decree enforcing a ban on smoking in public places and on communal transport.
A BBC reporter in the capital, Niamey, says the ban can be applied with immediate effect.
But he says it is not clear if there will be a period of grace during a planned public information campaign.
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Categories
· Cross-Border/Crime
· Smokefree Policies
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· Niger
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Jump to full article: Reuters, 2008-07-18
Intro: Smokers in the desert state of Niger who break newly enforced anti-smoking laws by lighting up in public or at work, face punishments of up to three months in prison, the government said on Friday.
Smugglers, bandits and rebels in Niger profit from the illegal trans-Saharan cigarette trade -- estimated by analysts to be worth $1 billion a year -- criss-crossing the impoverished West African state's lawless north.
The government's council of ministers in the faraway southwestern capital decided late on Thursday to adopt ways of applying a May 2006 anti-smoking law, it said in a statement.
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