11.   One neat effect of banning all smoking in public buildings is that you wind up with groups of smokers crowding around the outside doorways puffing away.

12.   Public buses ban smoking, but privately operated tour buses allow it, and smoking is usually not allowed on short flights within Japan.

13.   Some upstate senators have argued that restaurants with no bar would have to ban all smoking.

14.   The federal government has banned cigarette smoking on airplanes and in office buildings.

15.   The jail initially banned only smoking, but then discovered inmates were making their own cigarettes from chewing tobacco and snuff and rolling them in toilet paper.

16.   The prison had banned smoking days earlier.

17.   They are quick to point out that a restaurant owner could avoid the expense of building partitions or installing ventilation systems by simply banning smoking altogether.

18.   Tobacco companies say that means the FDA would then have the right to ban smoking outright.

19.   Today, smoking underground is banned.

20.   Other foreign airlines have also banned smoking altogether and many are offering smoke-free flights on a handful of routes.