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http://us-cigs.com/news/21.07.06/Marriott-Hotels-Ban-Smoking-In-Rooms.1222.html
Marriott International Inc., the nation’s largest hotel chain, said yesterday that it will ban smoking in its nearly 400,000 hotel rooms in the United States and Canada, casting the decision as less about public health and more about taking care of the bottom line.
Two decades ago, about half the company’s rooms were set aside for [...]

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http://smokker.com/news/21-07-06/Smoking-ban-set-for-31-Bob-Evans-locations.1278.html
Bob Evans Restaurants will ban smoking at 31 locations in southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky beginning Monday, July 31. The public company decided to ban smoking because of customer complaints and the U.S. Surgeon General’s finding that secondhand smoke is unhealthy, Mike Thompson, company vice president and regional director, said Monday.
“We are trying to protect [...]

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http://hot-cigs.com/news/Jul-21-2006/La-Plata-Passes-Ban-on-Smoking.1294.html
The La Plata Town Council passed an ordinance Tuesday night that bans smoking in and around the town’s restaurants and bars, a measure that is more stringent than the smoking ban that went into effect for Charles County last month.
The La Plata measure drew fire from some in the business community who say a smoking [...]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk
The sculptor behind a life-size statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel has denied he left out his cigar because of political correctness.
The bronze statue, at Brunel University in Uxbridge, west London, shows the engineer in his iconic top hat.
Anthony Stones said he had included the cigar as well in smaller models, but it looked wrong on [...]

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http://www.news-herald.com
You’ve probably taken your family to a restaurant and requested to sit in the non-smoking section. After all, neither you nor your spouse smoke and you don’t want your children inhaling those noxious fumes.
But, invariably, the second-hand smoke wafts into the non-smoking section.
Everyone at the table eats their meal quickly, avoiding spending too much time [...]

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http://www.durangoherald.com
When does a state law not matter? Apparently when local officials do not feel like enforcing it.
That seems to be the case in the matter of a Durango bar whose management does not wish to abide by Colorado’s recently enacted statewide smoking ban. A lawyer for the bar’s owners offered an imaginative argument claiming that [...]

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http://www.prnewswire.com
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
Minnesota (Blue Cross) has announced a new policy to issue refunds to
nonsmoking individual policyholders who, although eligible, have not been
paying tobacco-free premium rates.
“Blue Cross has done more to promote smoking cessation and prevent
tobacco use than any other health plan nationally,” said Richard Neuner,
senior vice president and chief marketing officer. “This [...]

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http://smokker.com/news/12-07-06/Smoking-ban-eliminates-good-choices.1062.html
Here we go again! Assemblymen Dick Traini and Dan Coffey have introduced an amendment to the city’s no-smoking ordinance. They propose it be against the law for anyone to smoke anyplace in the city except for hotel rooms, at home and some places outdoors. Smoking would not be allowed anywhere the public congregates such as [...]

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http://us-cigs.com/news/12.07.06/Voices-Pro-and-con-on-smoking-ban.1016.html
I would really like to be able to go out into public, perhaps a night on the town with my friends, without having to smell that horrible odor; without having to wash my hair when I get home; without having to have my clothes cleaned. — Alison Stirling
Those who smoke have no ‘right’ to fill [...]

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http://www.startribune.com
t’s as clear as the air in St. Paul restaurants and bars: People appreciate the comprehensive smoking ban that blew in with the March winds. In fact, three months after its debut, 72 percent of poll respondents favor the law, and 60 percent favor it “strongly.”
Combine that result with the unequivocal nature of the new [...]

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