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Plans are afoot to ban smoking in German restaurants, hospitals, airports, care centres and train stations (Photo: EUobserver)

Merkel backs smoking ban

Germany may be on the way to becoming the latest EU country to ban smoking in public places after its chancellor on Monday (12 June) said she would back the move.

Angela Merkel's spokesperson indicated that the chancellor supports a move by one of her ministers, Horst Seefhofer, to ban smoking in restaurants, hospitals, airports, care centres and train stations.

Lothar Binding, a Social Democrat MP, told the Financial Times that "the odds for a ban have never looked so good".

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Plans are afoot to ban smoking in German restaurants, hospitals, airports, care centres and train stations (Photo: EUobserver)

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