Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Valais becomes a no-smoking, at least in public, canton Wednesday 1 July. Cafe and rstaurant owners, who vehemently opposed the move, are coming around to the idea, says their representative association. Gastrovalais says that 60 percent of restaurant and cafe owners now support the change in the law but more out of resignation than conviction. Eighty percent of the group, which fought to keep the law from being passed, was originally opposed to the change.
Background on smoking bans in Switzerland: “No smoke without fire in Neuchatel”, 16 June 2009, GenevaLunch
Related: Le Nouvelliste, Fre
News story, GenevaLunch, 26 June 2009.
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