- Title: SWEDEN: HEALTH-CONSCIOUS SWEDEN TO BAN SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES.
- Date: 1st June 2005
- Summary: (BN03) STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (MAY 31- JUNE 1, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. GV/CU: EXTERIORS KVARNEN RESTAURANT SODERMALM DISTRICT, SWEDISH FLAGS FLYING (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. CU/ZOOM OUT/GV: SIGN READING "SMOKING BAN FROM JUNE 1" 0.21 3. MV/CU: WOMAN SMOKING AT THE BAR (2 SHOTS) 0.34 4. SOUNDBITE (Swedish) CAROLINE UNDALL "I will continue to smoke but not in bars." 0.39 5. MV/CU: SMOKERS SITTING AT THE TABLE; MAN HOLDING A CIGARETTE (3 SHOTS) 0.53 6. CU: BAR 0.59 7. CU/GV: PEOPLE SMOKING (2 SHOTS) 1.11 8. SOUNDBITE (Swedish) OTTO GABRIELSSON: "You still go out mainly to get drunk. The smoking is just a bonus." 1.29 9. CU/MV/GV: CIGARETTE BUTTS IN TRAY; BARTENDER SERVING BEER, TAKING ASHTRAY, THROWING CIGARETTE BUTTS INTO BIN; MAN WALKING WITH THE BUCKET FULL OF CIGARETTE BUTTS, THROWING THEM OUT (6 SHOTS) 1.58 10. SOUNDBITE (English) KVARNEN MANAGER AYHAN DEMIRKIRAN: "I think it is a good thing to do. We will sell less for the first three to four months but after that I think our sales will increase again." 2.23 11. GV: BAR 2.28 12. CU/MCU/CU: MAN STUBBING OUT CIGARETTE (3 SHOTS) 2.52 13. SOUNDBITE (English) FREDRIK AXLENGE: "Everybody says that the ban so fantastic, nobody complains but I complain." 3.01 14. GV: BAR 3.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
- Country: Sweden
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- Story Text: Health-conscious Sweden bans smoking in public places.
Sweden joined a club of non-smoking countries that in Europe
includes Ireland, Italy, Malta and Norway on Wednesday (May 31, 2005) after it
imposed a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants.
The move has largely been welcomed in the health-conscious Scandinavian
country with opinion polls showing 85 percent support for an end to smoking in
restaurants, and 77 percent support a ban in bars and clubs.
About one fifth of all Swedes want to take the ban even further and outlaw
smoking at home.
Under a new law, bars and restaurants will have to build closed-off
sections for smokers where food and drinks would not be served. However, most
small bars and restaurant are unlikely to afford the renovation and will
simply force smoking customers to go and smoke outside.
At a bar in central Stockholm, a traditional hangout for Swedish
chain-smokers, managers decided to enforce the ban only at lunchtime on
Wednesday to avoid confrontations with their guests.
The restaurant managers and owners say the industry won't suffer from the
ban as most people, both smokers and non-smokers, will continue to go out.
"We will sell less for the first three to four months but after that
I think our sales will increase again," Kvarnen's manager Ayhan
Demirkiran said.
The experience of neighbouring Norway, which introduced the smoking ban
last year, confirms his optimistic outlook.
"You still go out mainly to get drunk. The smoking is just a
bonus," said Kvarnen regular Otto Gabrielsson.
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