The Health Department is also seeking an amendment to the law to ban cigarette vending machines.

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The government says it will first apply age restrictions on cigarette vending machines from 2011, then consider a full ban after that.

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Many specialise in making complex and valuable equipment for factories, such as cigarette-rolling machines or printing presses.

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Italy's ferocious exporters, which tend to dominate micro-markets for such things as buttons and cigarette-making machines, do not terribly care how the Italian economy is growing: theirs is a world market.

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