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• Turks Support Smoking Ban, Doubt Its Enforcement, Poll Shows  

Jump to full article: Bloomberg News, 2009-07-09
Author: Ben Holland

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Ninety percent of Turks support a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants that will come into force this month, a poll showed.

More than half the respondents also said that they were concerned the July 19 ban won’t be properly enforced, according to the poll of 600 people by Istanbul-based Quirk Global Strategies published today.

About 35 percent of all adult Turks smoke, including more than half the men in the country of 72 million.

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