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• Govt. gives up on blanket smoking ban 

The government has abandoned plans to introduce a blanket ban on smoking indoors smoking, a Belgrade daily writes.

Danas says that this decision came after government officials held a meeting with cigarette manufacturers in Serbia.

The government has agreed to the “protection instead of ban” principle, promoted by cigarette makers and restaurants, the newspaper learned from a source close to the Cevtković cabinet.

According to this report, the meeting was held between Ministers of Health and Economy Tomica Milosavljević and Mlađan Dinkić and representatives of cigarette manufacturers last week.

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