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...your plate and mug - pop into the modish Café String, Nytorgsgatan 38, tel: (46-8) 714 85 14; www.cafestring.com, where absolutely everything is for sale. Are the streets feeling too chilled? At Beyond Retro, Asögatan 144, tel: (46-8) 641 36 42; www.beyondretro.com, you can browse secondhand frocks, Western and army gear - to the beat of the in-store band. And when your shopping bags are full, head over to PetSoundsBar, Skanegatan 80, tel: (46-8) 643 82 25; www.petsoundsbar.se, for a jukebox inspired cocktail (a peach vodka concoction called A Boy Named...
...proposal by a French parliamentary panel to ban smoking in enclosed public areas becomes law. Really. France would join other once smoke-filled nations like Ireland and Britain that now forbid cigarettes indoors. France's Health Ministry says 66,000 people die each year from smoking--5,000 from secondhand smoke--but 20% of the population still lights up. The ban will probably be carried out by decree so that legislators won't have to take a public position on it. But they'll be in the anti-smoking vanguard anyway: the National Assembly's tobacco shop shuts for good...
...Estimated number of U.S. adults who died in 2005 of heart or lung disease associated with inhaling secondhand smoke, according to the Surgeon General...
...Estimated number of babies who died last year of a variety of sudden infant death syndrome caused by secondhand smoke...
Indeed, it is doubtful that smokers endanger bystanders at all. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, out of twenty-three studies of workplace passive smoke, “Only one reported a statistically significant association between exposure to secondhand smoke at the workplace and risk for lung cancer...