Cabinet divided over smoking ban
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05/02/1998
A deep wedge has been driven into Germany's political class by a new anti-smoking law which is pitting pipe-puffing Mr Helmut Kohl against party colleagues. The rift runs right down the Cabinet table- Horst Seehofer, the Health MInister, is insisting on the right to smoke, while Angela Merkel , the Environment Minister, wants tobacco banished from the workplace- even the Chancellery.