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People smoke at a vegetable market in Baghdad.
Friday, Aug. 07, 2009

Open quoteThe government cannot even control the security situation. How could they enforce this law? Close quote

  • ISSAM SHAKIR MAHMOUD,
  • an Iraqi tobacco vendor, on the government's announcment Aug. 6 that it planned to ban smoking in all public places, in what would be one of the first such laws in the Middle East
Photo: Khalid Mohammed / AP | Source: New York Times