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Lebanon’s New “Smoke Free Beach”

June 18, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

The Daily Star:

The southern coastal city’s public beach was inaugurated on Friday for summer 2011 and was declared to be a smoke-free area for the first time ever.

Yes, the best place to ban smoking is a wild open space by the beach where smoking hurts other people least. Grow up some balls and ban smoking in enclosed spaces where a ban really matters.