Smokers can light up cigarettes in more places in Germany’s Bavaria, including under the tents of Munich’s beer bash Oktoberfest, after state lawmakers Wednesday relaxed an anti-tobacco law.
A year after banning smoking in most restaurants, bars and discotheques, the Bavarian legislature decided to allow smoking in corner cafes that are too small to have separate non-smoking and smoking areas.
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The vote by the legislature in the southern German state 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.
Commentators have said Bavaria’s strict anti-tobacco law may have contributed to the unpopularity of regional politicians and the historic election defeat last September of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.
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Germany's southern state of Bavaria on Wednesday adopted a new law banning smoking in public places, restaurants and, in theory, at Munich's beloved October beer festival.
