Ban on Smoking.

Tobacco is the only product that kills people when used as the manufacturer intends. Globally, 1.1 billion people smoke. Each year tobacco causes some four million
premature deaths. By the year 2030, tobacco is likely to be the world’s leading cause of death and disability killing more than 10 million people annually and claiming more lives than HIV, tuberculosis, motor vehicle accidents, suicide and homicide combined. Еhat is the real truth about tobacco smoking.

Ireland was the first European country to implement a comprehensive ban on smoking in public places in March 2004. MPs have been voted by a huge margin to ban smoking from all pubs and private members' clubs in England at 2006. Now according to BBC smoking has banned in bars in the capitals of France and Germany. Eight German states, including Berlin, have ushered in 2008 declaring their pubs and restaurants smoke-free. Almost a third of Germans smoke and the authorities in Berlin have decided not to enforce the restrictions actively for the first six months. In France, a law forbidding smoking in public places has now been extended to bars, cafes and hotels. The French health ministry allowed smokers a 24-hour "grace" period for the New Year festivities in a gesture of "tolerance". By the way any smoker caught flouting the ban thereafter can be fined up to 450 euros (£332; $662), while those who turn a blind eye to smokers on their premises can be fined up to 750 euros.

Greece has the highest proportion of adult smokers in Europe - 45%
Norway followed soon after, but allowed a smokers' corner in workplaces
Italy banned workplace smoking in January 2005 and Naples and Verona have made smoking illegal in public parks
Belgium allows smoking in cafes and bars if they have ventilation installed and are at least 50sq m (538sq ft) in area.