Smoking Ban

Thea Demanuele was doing a traineeship in Egypt with International student organization AIESEC before returning to Malta this week. She is surprised that a law prohibiting smoking in public places was introduced during her absence:

The most agonising surprise is the banning of cigarettes in public places!!! How can you no longer have a cigarette with your beer!!! This is torture! I was quietly sitting in Dubliners ordered my Export and lit a cigarette, when a barman came running to me and told me that I had to put out the cigarette. The surprised me, sat up and told him since when???? Well obviously there was no arguing about that!!! Cigarette out!!! The barman kept on teasing me all throughout the night..... when I went up for a beer, the guy kept on telling me 'What would you like? A smoke??' - Ha Ha.... Its very hard to get used to, even today when I went out of coffee with friends, and I got suddenly bored and had nothing to say, I could not put a cigarette in my mouth.... I guess its good though..... less chances of lung cancer!