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Uzbekistan Authorities Ban Billiards (washingtonpost.com) 

Tashkent city spokesman Dilshod Nazirov said billiard halls were a public nuisance, noisy places where people were doing drugs and drinking too much.

"When you go to a billiard club, there is thick cigarette smoke, the smell of alcohol – is this a sport?" Nazirov asked.

He suggested billiard halls brought the ban on themselves by selling alcohol and tobacco without licenses, and regularly flouting a city ordinance requiring clubs and restaurants to close at midnight. [This graph only]

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