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• Public smoking saved by the crisis 

Smoking will not be banned in bars and restaurants from the beginning of next year contrary to earlier plans, reported Hungarian website Hír­szerzô last Sunday (Oct 26).

The five-party parliamentary negotiations on banning smoking tobacco in closed public places were suspended as a result of favoring the debate on the 2009 budget and new tax regulations. Instead, the notices on the cigarette packets will be substituted to show images of cancerous lungs, mouths and leg gangrenes to promote prevention and health-awareness among smokers.

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