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• Lithuanian bar fined after pipe-loving PM lights up 

Jump to full article: Agence France Presse (AFP) (fr), 2008-03-14

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A hotel in Lithuania which allowed the country's prime minister to light up his pipe in breach of no-smoking laws has been hit with a hefty fine, authorities said Thursday.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas smoked his beloved pipe in the bar of the Klaipeda hotel in the eponymous city port, at a meeting in February with his Latvian opposite number, Ivars Godmanis.

Now the Lithuanian alcohol and tobacco control service said the bar in the had been ordered to pay 1,000 litas (290 euros, 446 dollars).

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