Tue, Sep 7, 2010
Tobacco Reporter Magazine Content:
Bavaria to hold referendum
Feb 8, 2010—The Bavarian government has said it will hold a referendum on smoking in cafés and beer halls, according to a story by Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
More than nine million voters in the southern German state will be allowed to cast their votes on July 4.
In the middle of last year, Bavarian legislators relaxed a year-old anti-tobacco law in a move that allowed more venues to cater for tobacco smokers. A year after banning tobacco smoking in most restaurants, bars and discotheques, the legislators decided instead to allow smoking in establishments big enough to provide separate smoking rooms and in cafés too small to have such separate facilities. Crucially, it was decided to allow smoking in the tents set up for Munich’s Oktoberfest.
The decision followed a Constitutional Court ruling that anti-tobacco laws in force since January 2008 in 14 of Germany's 18 states discriminated against owners of one-room establishments.
The Bavarian government has said that smoking will be allowed during this year's Oktoberfest.
Feb 8, 2010—The Bavarian government has said it will hold a referendum on smoking in cafés and beer halls, according to a story by Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
More than nine million voters in the southern German state will be allowed to cast their votes on July 4.
In the middle of last year, Bavarian legislators relaxed a year-old anti-tobacco law in a move that allowed more venues to cater for tobacco smokers. A year after banning tobacco smoking in most restaurants, bars and discotheques, the legislators decided instead to allow smoking in establishments big enough to provide separate smoking rooms and in cafés too small to have such separate facilities. Crucially, it was decided to allow smoking in the tents set up for Munich’s Oktoberfest.
The decision followed a Constitutional Court ruling that anti-tobacco laws in force since January 2008 in 14 of Germany's 18 states discriminated against owners of one-room establishments.
The Bavarian government has said that smoking will be allowed during this year's Oktoberfest.
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