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Initiative aims to stub out smoking nationwide

This content was published on May 25, 2009 About half of the country’s 26 cantons already have rules regulating smoking in bars and restaurants, but proponents of the campaign say the country’s laws are too disjointed and do not go far enough. “We have a very peculiar situation in Switzerland,” Otto Piller, president of the Swiss Lung League, told swissinfo.ch on Monday. “The…