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RENO, Nev. -- Thirty years after it began as just another quirky movement in Berkeley, Calif., the push to ban smoking in restaurants, bars and other public places has reached a national milestone. We think 100 percent of Americans will live in smoke-free jurisdictions within a few years."

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Smokers would still be able to light up in parts of New Jersey's 11 casinos under a compromise plan to be introduced Wednesday night. total ban measure was fiercely opposed by the casino industry

COLUMBUS — The state Health Department isn't relaxing Ohio's new smoking ban, despite last-minute lobbying by veterans and bowling center owners. prohibits smoking in any “public place” or “place of employment,”

The haze surrounding the state's anti-smoking law cleared Tuesday after a judge decided to uphold the ban passed by voters in November. Ruling rejects criminal penalties but keeps law's $100 civil fine

The Fort Wayne City Council on Tuesday approved one of the strictest smoking bans across Indiana, prohibiting people from lighting up in almost any indoor workplace. ban prohibits people from smoking in almost any public place

Bill would exempt pubs from state anti-smoking law.. Rocky Mountain News January 24, 2007 Patrons of mom-and-pop bars will be lighting up again if one state lawmaker gets her way. In exchange, the watering holes would pay an extra $500 for their liquor licenses - half of which would go...

Governor supports at least a $1 boost in cigarette tax... Madison - Gov. Jim Doyle will announce today his support for an increase in the cigarette tax of more than $1 a pack and call for legislation banning smoking statewide in workplaces and public places, including taverns and restaurants...

RENO (AP) — Thirty years after it began as just another quirky movement in Berkeley, Calif., the push to ban smoking in restaurants, bars and other public places has reached a national milestone. For the first time in the nation's history, more than half of Americans live in a city or state...

Judges determining parental custody and visitation have, in more than a dozen states, ordered a parent not to smoke around a child. An Ohio court last year gave custody of a 6-year-old boy to his father solely because the boy’s mother and her fiancé smoked. smoke police

Tenant in duplex is fuming over neighbor's smoking: Cozette Morgan pulled a breathing mask over her face as she stepped outside her second-story rental into a hallway that reeks of stale cigar smoke. is entitled to smoke in his home

Seattle Times: A year after a statewide smoking ban took effect at workplaces, restaurants, bars and other public places, a new battlefield over secondhand smoke is emerging: apartment buildings. 'Yeah, but your smoke is helping to kill me'

A bill that would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco is part of a legislative package that Democrats would like to see passed during their first weeks in charge of the new Congress, the Boston Globe reported Jan. 3...

an industry that purposely created a product to kill their customers.