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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Asia Pacific World Croatia's anti-smoking measures get more strict AFP - Sunday, April 11 Send IM Story Print A new no-smoking sign is put up on the door to a bar in Zagreb in 2009. Croatia has re-introduced tough anti-tobacco measures, the strictest in the Balkans region, as a six-month grace period for small bars and cafes expired. ZAGREB (AFP) - – Croatia re-introduced on Saturday tough anti-tobacco measures, the strictest in the Balkans region, as a six-month grace period for small bars and cafes expired. "We are not happy about it. Such a rigid law should not have been introduced particularly in a time of recession," Dragica, a waitress at a small cafe in downtown Zagreb, told AFP. "However, we have a terrace so the real impact will be felt in the autumn when it is too cold to sit outside any more," she added before chasing away two visitors who entered the cafe with lit cigarettes. No ashtray could be seen at tables of the Britanac cafe, which is among those smaller than 50 square metres (538 square feet) where since midnight (2200 GMT) smoking is allowed only if they have installed a special ventilation system. Its owner was not among only some 350 cafes that have requested permission to become a smoking establishment. According to the health ministry only 156 have received approval to do so. "It's too expensive," Dragica said explaining that the costs of a required ventilation system for the cafe where she works would be higher than 10,000 euros (13,400 dollars). In larger establishments and in restaurants smoking is allowed only in specially designated zones. Smoking is not allowed in any areas where food is served. Croatia introduced a strict smoking ban for all public places in May 2009. The law echoed standards of the European Union, that Zagreb hopes to join by 2012. However, it sparked strong protests by managers of cafes and restaurants who claimed it was ruining their business. Croatia, whose economy relies on the tourism industry, has some 16,000 cafes and restaurants employing some 100,000 people. The government ceded to their pressure and in September amended the law giving them a six-month transitory period to meet the criteria. "There will be no more concessions. I'm happy that a total ban starts at midnight," Health Minister Darko Milinovic said on Friday. The authorities have said the law is aimed at protecting non-smokers, who make up 68 percent of the country's population of 4.4 million. "The law has not been adopted to punish the owners (of the bars) but to encourage people to quit smoking," Milinovic stressed. However, smokers are not happy about the move arguing it should have been left to the owners to decide whether their establishment would be a smoking or a non-smoking one. "The law will not cut the number of smokers," said Marko Vukoja, sitting at a cafe terrace enjoying his morning coffee with a cigarette. "In a time of economic hardship such measures will only contribute to an increase in unemployment and many establishments will be closed," he said. Fines for breaking the law range between 500 and 15,000 kunas. The Balkans are home to Europe's most inveterate smokers, with 30 to 40 percent of all adults hooked on the habit, according to the World Health Organisation. In Croatia tobacco is blamed for killing some 10,000 people each year while and additional 3,000 die from passive smoking, according to the health ministry. 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