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Northern tourist city to ban smoking 

Jump to full article: Vietnews - Tuoi Tre Newspaper (vn), 2009-09-29
Author: VNA

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Northern tourist town Ha Long City will tell its smokers to butt out, particularly in public areas. Ha Long will become the country’s second smoke-free city thanks to a project launched on September 26 by U.S.-based Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids in the city.

Ha Long, in northern Quang Ninh Province, is home to UNESCO-listed Ha Long Bay, one of the major tourist destinations in northern Vietnam.

The US$284,500 project is being run by the U.S. organization and the Vietnam Union of Sciences and Technology Associations

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