رئيس نقابة المطاعم يستقيل ويعلن التظاهر الثلاثاء رفضاً لقانون منع التدخين

next year more than THAT will die from poverty due to this law. "control" where people can smoke.. fine, but the way this way carried out and implimented.. neither shows implimentational studies nor impact results.
LOVELAYYYYY!! as usual anothe FAIL on behalf of our government. As a WHOLE.. dont turn this into something political.. i mean both M8 and M14 killon bisharfouna lately.

“Please allow restaurant goers and smokers to enjoy their days out within properly-studied laws,” Ariss demanded.

Yes, and this is what the low intended !!! there are rules to allow smoking in certain areas, so follow these rules.
At least for once, let us take the good thing from the western civilization!

A country who has most of its infrastrucure farked up, needs to turn its head toward fixing all that needs fixing. A stupid move to level 10 when level 1 to 9 are about to collapse is pretty stupid.

any outing move from those mass murdrers is a good move. this man and his collegues are killing their employees and their clients in order to make some extra money on Arguileh!! and now they have the nerve to protest! it's really shamefull how some people mistake the population for dumb sheep,

Shut up Paul

@FT what about those people owning restaurants that depend ONLY on hubly bubly sales? ex: that guy "sanioura" what's he supposed to do? adapt? :S ... or pubs and clubs (coming from a smoker) try having a drink sometime without a ciggy.... baleeha hal dahra ya3ne.
Families and non smokers have always bennefited from something called "non smoking area" which was ALREADY found in all restaurants.

@FT what about those people owning restaurants that depend ONLY on hubly bubly sales? ex: that guy "sanioura" what's he supposed to do? adapt? :S ... or pubs and clubs (coming from a smoker) try having a drink sometime without a ciggy.... baleeha hal dahra ya3ne.
Families and non smokers have always bennefited from something called "non smoking area" which was ALREADY found in all restaurants.

correction "al saniour" i think that hubly chain is called.. not SANIOURA LOLLLLL

I'm sorry are some of you idiots actually FOR smoking in public closed areas? So, I need to inhale your cancer just so that you can smoke your cig so you can control your urges?

maybe you all need to take a look at how things work in north america and europe. there's a ban EVERYWHERE and it's awesome!

so stop wining about your silly cigs, and do something productive! Like sports, playing music, writing a book, travelling..

pathetic..

yah because its smoking bans that will kill the economy not the explosions and attacks we do on our own people every day that cause that. every civilized country has a law like this. whats killing the economy is when civilized people try to visit our country and then they leave with asthma. its time something like this is passed. and yet people will smoke at the airport while waiting for their bag having a conversation with immigration officer.

It reminds me of the US--they save you from having your twelve-year-old child in the front seat of your car with you because of the one-in-a-million chance of a head-on collision in which the air-bag kills the child, but then they pass a law to arrest you for "links" to terrorists and send you away forever without a word, and the news media and the courts all say, "Amen." The funny thing is that the two cases, yours and mine, have one thing in common: Israel, a state that is racist by its own definition. At least Lebanon and the US have not quite gone that far. Is there a move to ban Shiism in the works? I mean, ban Shiites? So why do the people put up with this stuff? Answer: they don't. They're waiting. Anger waits. Resentment forgets. Let's check the score: smoking ban? Check. Car bomb? Check. Meanwhile in the US, the voters are facing the choice in the presidential race between Israel's goodwill ambassador and its goodwill ambassador.

Good riddance.

Myself and many smokers love the law and I hope it sticks! Why should we all suffer because of other people's addiction to cigarettes?

Agreed with you FT - It is great to be able to go out and not smell like the inside of a shoe (after a long day of walking and sweating :p ) because of somebody's urge/need to light up and smoke a cigarette.

simple solution: create tough regulation to create 2 spaces within the restaurant, one for smokers, and one for non-smokers, BUT (big BUT) the smokers are eitrher upper floor, or deep inside, not ground floor or in main central space, so not to affect the rest of the restaurant. I lived in Tokyo for 7 years, all cafes and resots are done this way, and everybody is happy.

Hezbollah bloc to oppose any changes to smoking law: Qassem October

19, 2012 01:48 PM The Daily Star

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem described the recent implementation of a smoking ban in public places as a great accomplishment and said his bloc would refuse any amendments to the legislation.

Earlier this month Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra proposed urgent amendments to the smoking ban which went into effect in September and called on the

It appears Al Quieda isnt the only terrorist group that does bodily harm to those who smoke or pursue repealing smoking bans. In Iraq the Iraquis thu out Al quieda when they started cutting off hands,ears,noses etc for not obeying al quiedas smoking ban they then joined with the Americans,however 3 years later Secretary of state Hitlery Clinton by direction from Obama forced a nationwide smoking ban thru the Iraqi government with threats of lost moneys if they didnt do it!

every western country in the world has implemented that law and restaurants and clubs and bars are full. You say lebanese dont want to go out to smoke a cigarette when its raining? Canadians do that in -15C. Americans, french german EVERYone in the free world has to go out to smoke a cigarette.
The arrogant Lebanese people need to get used to that, they wont die of it.

Dounia: "every western country in the world has implemented that law and restaurants and clubs and bars are full."

Pray, which fantasy world do you live in Dounia? Many, many pubs, bars and clubs and yes, even restaurants, have closed in large numbers in countries all over the world since the introduction of smoking bans. Your comment is complete nonsense!