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Jump to full article: swissinfo (Swiss Radio International) (ch), 2009-05-25
Intro: A coalition of 40 health organisations has launched an initiative to ban smoking in all buildings open to the public across Switzerland.
About half of the country's 26 cantons already have rules regulating smoking in bars and restaurants, but proponents of the campaign say the country's laws are too disjointed and do not go far enough.
"We have a very peculiar situation in Switzerland," Otto Piller, president of the Swiss Lung League, told swissinfo.ch on Monday. "The way it is now, you can have a town that sits on the border between canton Solothurn, which forbids smoking, and canton Aargau, which does not, meaning half the town allows smoking and half does not. It's an impossible situation."
The new law, if passed, would make any room open to the public smoke free, including those in restaurants, bars, schools and hospitals.
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