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Two U.K. Hospitals Allow Vape Shops in Bid to Promote Smoking Ban - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/world/europe/uk-hospitals-vaping-shops.html

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Ashtrays have been removed from the hospitals’ outdoor smoking areas, and anyone caught smoking on the premises faces a fine of 50 pounds, or $62. The use of e-cigarettes is allowed on the hospitals’ grounds, aside from near doorways, and former smoking shelters have been turned into vaping areas.

The two vape shops are operated by the e-cigarette company Ecigwizard.

It Looks Like a Lake Made for Instagram. It’s a Dump for Chemical Waste.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/world/europe/siberia-lake-instagram.html

There is only one problem: The lake is a man-made waste site for a power plant, Heating and Electrical Station Number 5. And that irresistible blue hue is not the color of pristine waters reflecting off the sky, but rather the deposits of calcium salts and metal oxides, according to the electrical company that runs the plant.

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