Smoking verboten at Oktoberfest
Europe, World Sunday, September 19th, 2010Germany’s giant Oktoberfest beer party, now celebrating its 200th birthday, is rising to a new challenge — stinky drinking halls — with a new weapon: stench-eating bacteria. In past years, olfactory offences in the giant tents emanating from stale beer, sweat and bratwurst could simply be masked with cigarette smoke. But now smokers hoping to [...]