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Geneva, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – Geneva’s battle to ban smoking continues: Thursday night the Grand Conseil, the canton’s legislative body, voted during a noisy and tense debate, to soften the no-smoking law proposed by the Conseil d’Etat, the canton’s executive body.
The law passed by the Grand Conseil allows for smoking areas but with no service in public spaces, including cafes and restaurants, but politicians behind the ban have vowed to take the new law to the federal high court.
The new law is designed to replace new cantonal smoking regulations rejected in September 2008 by the high court in Lausanne. The court did not take issue with the content of the regulations, but rather with the legislative process, sending lawmakers back to the drawing board. The regulations were the result of Geneva’s politicians trying to quickly implement the February 2007 popular vote to ban smoking in public areas.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 23 January 2009.
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