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Geneva votes to ban smoking in public places 

Jump to full article: Reuters, 2008-02-24

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Geneva, home to the United Nations' European headquarters and scores of banks catering to the very rich, will ban smoking in public places following a referendum on Sunday, the Swiss news agency ATS said.

Some 79 percent of voters in Switzerland's second-largest city supported the prohibition, which the local government said it would quickly put in place, ATS said. . . .

Geneva will be the sixth of the Alpine country's 26 cantons to institute a ban on smoking in public places.

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