SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will ban smoking in all hotels and bars, except those in the outback Northern Territory, in a move to stop the death of hundreds of bartenders each year from breathing second-hand smoke.
Australia's two most populous states, New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, will impose total smoking bans in hotels and bars by 2007. Australia's other five states will impose smoking bans in licensed premises from January 2006 through to 2007.
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