Having not visited another coutry without comprehensive smoke free law since 1st July I was wondering when I would get my first whiff of indoor air pollution. As it happens my wife and I were able to travel from Birmingham to Zurich and then onto the hotel in Basel (using the ruthlessly efficient Swiss transport system) all in relatively clean air.
We were able to walk around the town and photograph the sights (including adverts for the Davidoff-sponsored tennis tournament - as featured on Globalink) and have a meal smoke free. We even witnessed a couple of people decide to have a meal somewhere else rather than go into a smoky restaurant.
So it was when we were in the hotel lobby in the evening socialising with friends and other delegates (actually we were discussing harm reduction but that sounds obsessive doesn`t it?) when a man at the bar lit an enormous cigar!
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