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• Beefed up smoking ban set for Olympics; in hands of `Patriotic Health Campaign Committee' 

BEIJING - It's called the "Patriotic Health Campaign Committee." This is the Beijing municipal body charged with enforcing the city's beefed up no-smoking rules, and it's sure to be popular with the 500,000 foreigners expected to visit the Beijing Olympics.

It'll be a different story for Beijing's 5 million smokers.

New smoking restrictions begin May 1, part of a commitment officials made for a smoke-free Olympics. That date will also send officials scrambling, trying to figure out how to enforce new rules in a city famous for incorrigible smokers _ and a country with 350 million of them _ who flagrantly ignore no-smoking bans in public places.

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