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Jump to full article: Agence France Presse (AFP) (fr), 2009-02-17
Intro: Slovakia's parliament on Tuesday passed a bill that partially bans smoking in restaurants but allows customers in pubs and cafes to light up.
Under the bill, still to be signed into law by the president, restaurants must earmark at least 50 percent of their floor area for non-smokers and separate them from smokers by a wall.
"This bill represents an important milestone in the protection of non-smokers and a step towards the introduction of further limits on smoking in bars and cafes," Robert Ochaba from the Public Health Bureau told AFP.
"We supported a total smoking ban, we don't consider this partial solution very fortunate," Pavol Kasuba, secretary-general of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants, told AFP.
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