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Eritrea bans smoking ads 

Tobacco advertising has been banned in Eritrea after tough new anti-smoking regulations, including a ban on lighting up in most public places, took effect this week, officials say.

The new rules, which came into force on Tuesday, a year after the health ministry first published a proclamation on tobacco control measures, lay out stiff fines for violators in this impoverished Horn of Africa nation.

"No person shall advertise, promote or cause to promote by any other person a tobacco product through direct or indirect means, including through sponsorship of an organisation, service, physical establishment or vehicle of any kind, or event," the proclamation says.

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