Source: Xinhua Newswire
Date: 2010-07-08,

Several dozen St. Petersburg activist couples puckered up
Wednesday on the U.N.\'s World Kissing Day to give more than lip
service to their campaign against smoking.

Anti-smoking kisses have been the motto of a group of St.
Petersburgers who have locked lips on this day every year since
2008. This year, however, the kissers completed a simultaneous
three-minute smooch to help snuff out smoking around the world.

The St. Petersburg kissers locked lips on the Potseluyev Bridge
over the Moika River. The bridge was chosen as the kissing spot
in St. Petersburg thanks to a 200-year-old legend that says some
city dwellers kissed their good-bye\'s after being forced to leave
town.