Reuters:

Cuba, which evokes images of cigar-chomping revolutionaries, has banned smoking in public places, an uphill struggle in a country synonymous with fine tobacco where more than half of adults smoke.
Cubans are no longer allowed to smoke in air-conditioned areas, offices, schools and sports centres in an island-wide health drive by President Fidel Castro’s government.
Castro, once a famous aficionado of Cohiba cigars, gave up smoking two decades ago to safeguard his health.