41.   The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states may not ban outdoor signs advertising tobacco products near places where children congregate.

42.   The Senate declined to require states to ban drive-up sales of alcoholic beverages.

43.   The state also bans perch fishing altogether in June, when the fish spawn.

44.   The state should now ban this brutal exercise altogether.

45.   Thirty states currently ban direct shipments of alcoholic beverages to consumers, and seven have made such acts a felony.

46.   Thirty states have banned same-sex unions.

47.   Thirteen states ban some felons either permanently or conditionally from voting.

48.   Though all but three Indian states have banned the sale of noniodized salt, iodized salt is still not universally available.

49.   Three states effectively ban such adoptions, six states permit them by law or court ruling, and otherwise the legal status of such adoptions varies widely.

50.   Twelve other states ban capital punishment altogether.