More than four out of five pubs in Germany make use of legal loopholes or flout the rules to allow people to smoke, almost three years after a ban, a study by health campaigners showed on Tuesday.
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Smoking has been banned in German bars and restaurants since July 2008, but there are widespread exceptions allowing it in separate rooms and in pubs under a certain size. Rules also differ among Germany's 16 states.
"The rules governing exceptions on protecting non-smokers are neither practical nor effective. In most states they can be said to have been a failure," the DKFZ said.
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It said that tests showed that separate smoking rooms failed to stop potentially harmful air particles wafting into non-smoking areas.
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