GERMAN STATES OK SMOKING BAN IN BARS, EATERIES
German state officials took steps last week to restrict smoking
in restaurants and bars, a move met with a positive response
from some U.S. personnel stationed at an Army base there.
Personnel questioned at Grafenwhr last week unanimously
supported the off-post anti-smoking measures.
Staff Sgt. Edward Perez, a nonsmoker, said he couldn't wait for
smoking restrictions to take effect.
It will be better for me, he said. Smoking is a way of life
over here. Everybody smokes. They think people are strange if
they don't smoke. . . .
Smoking is prohibited in all Department of Defense facilities.
On post bars and restaurants within U.S. Army Garrison
GrafenwÆhr are already smoke-free, according to staff at the
base Tower Inn restaurant.
