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Beijing, home to 4 million smokers, is to introduce a gradual cigarette ban.

China's capital will ban smoking inmost public places starting fromMay 1, signaling a big step towardtobacco control in a nation of 350million smokers and a move to meet China'spledge of a smoke-free Olympics.