31.   The Air Force lifted its smoking ban to allow the Balkan delegates to smoke as a sign of cultural sensitivity to the male chain-smoking representatives.

32.   The agreement also calls for a national indoor smoking ban, with restaurants and bars exempted, and would require the industry to release all its research documents.

33.   The companies have even endorsed a national indoor smoking ban, something the industry has aggressively fought in the past.

34.   The council panel on public safety will weigh improved methods to enforce the smoking ban.

35.   The correction officers union has opposed the smoking ban, saying it will promote violence.

36.   The hospital smoking ban was instituted to protect patients and employees from the health hazards of second-hand smoke and to give hospitals a position of leadership in health promotion.

37.   The intellectual underpinnings of the smoking ban are rock solid.

38.   The Occupational Safety and Health Administration last year proposed a smoking ban for all workplaces, including bars and restaurants.

39.   The previous November, the Mississippi Republican tried unsuccessfully to stop a bill extending the airline smoking ban to domestic flights under six hours.

40.   The proposal appears to mark the first time that any ski resort has taken a smoking ban to such extremes.