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As others hype health, council coughs up cancer.

Publication: Indianapolis Business Journal
Publication Date: 16-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: As others hype health, council coughs up cancer.(banning smoking in public places)

Article Excerpt
On my way to scatter the ashes of my late wife, Pam, at Cape Cod, I stayed with friends near Columbus, Ohio. They took me to dinner at a village tavern.

Despite (or because of) a local ordinance banning workplace smoking, the place was packed. We spent more than $100 on dinner and drinks. Given Pam's death from a smoker's cancer, we wouldn't have entered had the proprietor permitted puffing.

Next morning, The Columbus Dispatch ran an editorial calling for a statewide workplace smoking ban. It said city-by-city efforts had improved human health, so all of Ohio should follow suit.

A week later, I checked e-mail from the road. My Ohio friends sent another Dispatch clipping. This one said there'd been a referendum trying to repeal Columbus' ban on...

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