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• Smoking ban grows dim  

Jump to full article: Vietnews - Tuoi Tre Newspaper (vn), 2009-12-28

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A new government decision to ban smoking in indoor public areas will be effective from January 1, 2010, but it is still unclear who will make the ban come true.

Ministry of Transport chief inspector, Nguyen Xuan Hao, said inspectors had yet to receive any instructions on how to punish smokers in public places.

Hao said a lack of traffic inspectors may cause difficulties in implementing the smoking ban.

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