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• Smoking ban for Chinese capital 

A ban on smoking in most public buildings has come into force in the Chinese capital, Beijing.

The move is an attempt to discourage some of China's 350 million smokers and also part of wider efforts to clean up the city in the run up to the Olympics.

For every three cigarettes lit worldwide, one is smoked in China. Almost 25% of the Chinese smoke.

Smoking is also contributing to a rapid rise of cancer and heart disease in the world's most populous country.

Enforcement team

In Beijing, the smokers are everywhere - and it feels like it. But now that may change.

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