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Jump to full article: Times of Malta (mt), 2010-02-07
Author: Patrick Cooke
Intro: If anyone objected to the bartender smoking behind the bar of St Julian's Labour Club in the early hours of yesterday morning, they would not have had to go far to inform a police officer. St Julian's police station is just next door, and there was an officer in uniform drinking at the bar. The problem was, he was smoking as well.
Smoking in enclosed public spaces in Malta was banned nearly six years ago, but you would not know it if you were in Paceville or St Julian's on the past two Friday nights.
The Sunday Times visited a total of 14 bars in the area over the two evenings between 10.30 p.m. and 1.30 a.m. to witness how the current smoking restrictions are being enforced. Judging by the manner in which revellers smoked inside with impunity, the government's decision to extend the ban to all public places from 2013 will have little significance in Malta's premier nightlife district.
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