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Hotel kicks the smoking habit  

ABU DHABI // The city's first club dedicated to smoking has become its first completely non-smoking club.

The Cristal cigar and champagne bar at the Millennium Hotel has banned smoking. Management at the nightspot, now known as the Cristal wine and champagne bar, acted before the Government imposes a long-promised ban on smoking in public places that all the capital's hotels will have to adopt.

Nevine Albert, a spokeswoman for the hotel, said crowds had been smaller at the bar, which was first of its kind in the city when it opened in March 2002, but guests were expected to return once they became accustomed to the no-smoking rule.

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