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Oct 16 2009, Wa'd

Around 8 months after banning smoking in public places in Jordan, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad issues a decree banning smoking in public places and public transportation. Those who are caught smoking in public will be paying a fee of 2000 Syrian...

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Payam Rez, 23, of Sterling, Va., right, smokes a hookah pipe at Lebnan Zaman in Vienna, Va. on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. A smoking ban that makes no exceptions for hookah pipes has passed in Virginia’s legislature.