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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Smoking-Ban Takes Effect in France


In bars and cafes across Paris, in restaurants and casinos throughout France, the once-revered cigarette now is officially banned, relegating one of the Western world's last public smoking holdouts to the ashtray of history. (Washington Post, Thursday)

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. –Frederic Bastiat

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