Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2005-10-27
Author: Lindsay Dentlinger Windhoek / The Namibian (Windhoek)
Intro: THE days of smoking in public in Namibia are numbered.
Parliament yesterday unanimously agreed that the exposure of non-smokers to second-hand smoke had to be stubbed out.
By ratifying the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on tobacco control, Namibia has set in motion the process of enacting its own legislation to outlaw certain tobacco-related practices.
The convention came into force in February.
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