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Jump to full article: Kyiv Post (ua), 2009-07-25
Intro: Since the start of the current year, 28,000 people have been fined for smoking in no-smoking places, which is 20% up year-over-year.
The department for PR and international activities at Ukraine's Interior Ministry reported that in 2008 38,000 protocols were filled up for violation of a ban on smoking.
The law on amendments to the law on measures to prevent and cut tobacco consumption and their harmful influence on public's health signed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko, violators are people, who move with lit cigarettes or pipes in healthcare, educational, sports and cultural objects, passenger waiting rooms at railway, bus stations and airport buildings, trains, taxi, public transport, elevators and playgrounds.
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