| The smoking ban in Germany has appeared to be not | | | | club cards and supplied the visitors with these. |
| so effective as in the other European countries. The | | | | In the Rheinland-Plafz the authorities have thought that |
| government of the country has restricted smoking in all | | | | in the bar that cannot be divided into two rooms - for |
| buildings where federal institutions are located, and also | | | | smokers and non-smokers - smoking is allowed. So, in |
| in public transport. What about the smoking ban in | | | | Germany the smokers feel themselves now more |
| restaurants and bars - this decision has been left to | | | | comfortable than in the neighbor countries. |
| the local federal authorities. The owners of the drinking | | | | The mode for smoking bans in various countries of the |
| establishments across the whole country have raised | | | | world is gaining popularity. In Great Britain, in the center |
| a struggle for the rights of the visitors to smoke and | | | | of London a giant cigarette-stub has been installed on |
| also for the significant income amount that they would | | | | the Trafalgar Square, becoming already a cultural |
| miss because of the smoking ban. | | | | heritage of the smoking age, when it was still a |
| Recently, the Saxonian Land Court has stated that the | | | | tendency of mode to smoke cigarettes, pipes and |
| visitors can smoke in a small bar, where the owner | | | | cigars. Now this mode seems to be vanishing and |
| serves the visitors personally. In Bavaria one can | | | | every day more and more people give up smoking, |
| smoke in the famous beer tents, which are an attribute | | | | also because of the rising discomfort of the process - |
| of every Octoberfest. Besides, smoking is allowed in | | | | it is harder and harder to find a legal place for smoking. |
| closed clubs, so all usual beer pubs have quickly issued | | | | |