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• Doors to public places shut to smokers in Lithuania 

Smokers in European Union member state Lithuania were forced to indulge their habit in the streets after a ban on smoking in public establishments took effect at the start of the year.

A law against smoking in cafes, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, discotheques and other public establishments -- passed by the country's parliament in May -- came into force on Monday. . . .

Some 39 percent of Lithuanian men and 14 percent of women are smokers, according to recent data collected by the Baltic country's department of statistics.

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