Or what new social behavior; no one guessed, a generation ago, that a 1997 control room would be a no-smoking zone.

Serves unfussy tasty European and Russian food; has wi-fi access, a very relaxed ambience and a no-smoking zone.

Signs of a similar nature are used routinely to designate no-smoking zones, and nobody lights up in places where those signs are posted.

A month ago, Mr. Farber, a comedian and pianist, declared his 115-seat club a no-smoking zone.

Then, to my horror, Dr. Dimitrov informed us that the Queen Mary Elizabeth was a no-smoking zone.

An antismoking lobby has been gaining momentum here over the past two decades and many public places were already no-smoking zones before the new law was passed.

Students huddled in their overcoats last Wednesday, stealing puffs of cigarettes between classes and after school, dutifully respecting the school's no-smoking zone out front.

A charge from some Council members, that the company had threatened to leave New York if the headquarters became a no-smoking zone, is not true, he said.

I was just wondering whether anybody is going to inform the particles of smoke where the smoking zone and the no-smoking zones are.

By the millennium, Ms. Deneuve was chain-smoking again, puffing through no-smoking zones from Australia to Canada.