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CAMEROON / CAMEROUN

KUMBO

Office Pro Group
Kumbo Square (P. O. Box 06)     tel 237 348 14 85
Computer training center and cyber cafe (satellite connection, download speeds up to 256 kbps), and carrier of office supplies.
"The environment is clean and quite inviting."
Mon-Sat 8am-9pm / Sun noon-9pm
Thanks Gmaimo!

YAOUNDÉ

UREDS Cyber Cafe
Internet cafe
ureds@camnet.cm     tel. (237) 22.22.76
Essos-Nord, Rue 1.271
On peut fumer et prendre du café sur la terrasse; la salle des ordinateurs est non fumeur.
You can smoke and drink coffee on the terrace, but the computer room is nonsmoking.


EGYPT

CAIRO

Pharaoh Egypt Hotel
11 Ahmed Orabi Street Giza, Mohandessin
Tel: +(202)347-4266 or +(202)347-1619+(202)304-7357 or +(202)347-4196
Fax: +(202)302-3480 or +(202)304-7357
soliman@brainy1.ie-eg.com
A fairly moderately priced hotel, near the residential and diplomatic sectors, airport, and the pyramids at Giza. Note: Not totally smokefree. Hard to find in Egypt! 40 rooms are for nonsmokers. The restaurant, pool, etc. are not smokefree. However, this is the first high-quality but not hugely expensive hotel SmokeFreeWorld has found in Egypt, which pays any attention to nonsmokers. An ordinary American family could afford this place, not just people traveling on company accounts. Also, the so-called world class hotels are not totally smokefree either.


IRAN

Restaurants and bars are supposed to be smokefree. Status unknown.

ISRAEL

In principle eating "sections" of restaurants are supposed to be smokefree. But it's not so easy to find.

JERUSALEM

Te'enim
21 Emek Refaim     02-5630048
Restaurant, vegetarian and kosher.

Village Green
33 Jaffa Street (near Rivlin)
Vegetarian restaurant, cafeteria-style, inexpensive and fresh-cooked (quite good) food and imaginative dishes. They have a salad bar too. You can't smoke inside but there's outside dining where you can. Closed on Shabbat.


MOROCCO

LA VICTOIRE

Interplanet
Internet cafe
info@maghrebnet.net.ma     tel. 21-7-682266
6 Rue ibn Yasmine-Avenue la Victoire
Exclusivement non-fumeurs.
Completely nonsmoking


SÉNÉGAL

DAKAR

Metissacana Internet Cafe
e-mail: webmaster@metissacana.sn     tel. 221 822 20 43
30, rue de Thiong BP 6491
Totalement non fumeurs dans la salle des ordinateurs.
Completely nonsmoking *in the computer room*.


SOUTH AFRICA

Restaurants and bars are supposed to have separately ventilated smoking areas.

CAPE TOWN

Houtbay Hideaway
info@houtbay-hideaway.com     tel 27 21 7908040
Private hotel/villa. "We spent a week in a beautiful, very delightful private villa-hotel on the Atlantic Ocean some 20 min driving from the centre of Cape Town. It is all in the 20s/30s, with rugs and paintings...They charge only about USD 400 for sleeping 10! They enforce strict non-smoking. ...The owner calls himself "newly born breather" ...I know it sounds corny, but we really found it very much like our home. Especially because they just check out, and so there's a choice of CDs, books, open fires all over ... Unlike most of these places where you are sort of forced to have breakfast between 7 and 9, here we all made our own, as every room has its own kitchenette, any time of the day. It is not very wheel-chair friendly, because of the sloping gardens, but the sea and mountain views are absolutely breath-taking (pun intended)...Although we have travelled all our lives, and stayed in the most expensive hotels around the world, from the Waldorf to The UAE, this little hideaway villa tops them all and is definitely worth mentioning."

EMPANGENI

Izindaba Internet Cafe
4 Paul Avenue tel     035-772-1145 (within So.Africa)     27-351-772-1145 (from outside the country)
E-mail: izindaba@intekom.co.za
A smokefree internet cafe. They are also setting up an eating area; not sure about their plans for that.

GRAAF-REINET

Iets Anders ("Something Else")
Pastoriestraat 3     tel 049-8910023
Restaurant and tourist shop.

PLETTENBERG BAY

Rafiki's Restaurant
Kettle Beach, Keurboomstrand   (044) 535 9813
Off the N2, 8km north east of Plettenberg Bay.
Great view, fresh catch, gourmet cooking. Restaurant is nonsmoking (smoking is permitted in the bar).

RICHARDS BAY

The Elephant and I Coffee Shop
Shop 26, Boardwalk Centre     tel 789-7269
Very attractive layout in a deservedly crowded coffee shop. Luscious cakes and pies. Saw families (parents, kids) cheerfully chomping away. People who work in the shopping mall go there for their coffee breaks, which tells you something. There are two separate seating arrangements, one for smoking and one for nonsmoking. As you stand inside the mall and face the shop, which has open frontage, each table in the section on the right has a card with the internationally known logo for no smoking. The tables have ash trays, but they are used solely to stash ripped-up sugar packets and other paper debris. On the left half of the shop are the smoking tables, which extend out into the shopping mall. I stood in the no-smoking section and could not smell anything from the smoking side where plenty of customers were smoking, so would have found it very comfortable to eat and drink there. Others, however, have been able to smell the smoke. I guess the air was moving just right the day I was there. Realize this is not the totally smoke-free environment you usually report, but believe the owners deserve credit for taking a pioneering step and offering at least a partial safe haven for people who don't want to smell and breath smoke while they eat some darn good food. (August 2000)


TANZANIA

Restaurants are supposed to have designated smoking areas.

UGANDA

In March 2004, smoking is banned in public places, including workplaces, and yes, restaurant, and yes, bars! Reviews are welcome.

 

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