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Bill aims to curb youth smoking 

A Health Ministry bill, to be submitted in Parliament soon, aims to ban the sale of tobacco to minors but does not plan the creation of the �smoke-free� bars and restaurants that have become the norm elsewhere in the European Union.

The draft legislation foresees heavy fines for the sale of tobacco products to minors as well as the strict enforcement of smoking restrictions in closed public spaces, introduced five years ago but barely observed.

State inspectors will be dispatched to conduct spot checks and fine offenders, the ministry's general secretary, Aristides Kalogeropoulos, told Kathimerini yesterday.

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