HASHIMOTO-SMOKING

TOK50-19980226-TOKYO: (FILES) File photo taken 14 May 1996 of Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto smoking a cigarette at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives in Tokyo. Japan's heavy-smoking prime minister can carry on smoking a court ruled 26 February in rejecting a suit filed by anti-smokers. EPA PHOTO/AFP JIJI PRESS