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India bans smoking in public places
Oct 2 2008, Grace

The Indian government banned smoking in many public places Thursday, four years after an earlier ban was little enforced and widely ignored. The initiative came as the nation of nearly 1.2 billion people marked the birthday of India’s pacifist...

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