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The policy prohibits workers from passing out smoking supplies in streets, parks and other public spaces, instead requiring such handouts be conducted indoors or at city-sanctioned locations.

"Dublin City Council do not want anyone to touch any work of art whether indoors or outdoors to avoid damage and costly repairs," a spokesperson said.

The vote was a serious defeat for Bass, who had argued that the changes would result in the creation of yet another bureaucracy, while diverting energy away from efforts to move people indoors.

But time indoors and spending time on devices have been difficult to tease apart in research, and it could also be that technology is playing a role in the increased rates of myopia.

The only people out on the streets were police and paramilitaries, deployed to ensure people stayed indoors.