I stayed about a half day (twice) in Istanbul and 10 days in Trabzon.

Vlad

>Just curious. What city in Turkey did you vist.
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>--Paul
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>>Speaking about solutions, a good air-conditioning and air circulation system can bring the smoke to zero. I was amazed when I went to Turkey by their excelent air systems in long distance buses. Almost everybody smokes inside, but the system is so good, that a non-smoker passenger sitting next to a smoker cannot say that the other is smoking!
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>>Vlad
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>>>Leave it up to bar owners to have a smoke free bar if they want to, and Erik and I and my non-smoking friends can hang out there if we want to.
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>>>For the State (read: any government body) to tell every business in it's jurisdiction whether it can allow smoking within it's premises is pure fertilizer.
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>>>IMHO,
>>>Rich.