1.   Government policy was aimed at reducing the number of smokers in the country and an advertising ban would go a good way to achieving this, he said.

2.   It is thought that a complete overtime ban will go ahead.

3.   After the ban went into effect last summer, the discarded machines immediately rolled into Georgia.

4.   Even Peter Pringle, who is writing a book on the tobacco industry, thinks the ban goes too far.

5.   In a statement Tuesday, Taft acknowledged such a ban is not going anywhere.

6.   In November, the ban went systemwide.

7.   In the year since the ban went into effect, criminal activity Down Under has increased dramatically.

8.   Italy, which has already invested heavily to help Yugoslavia privatize its telecommunications system, also does not want to see an investment ban go forward.

9.   Norman Seabrook, president of the correction-officers union, thinks there could be a lot more of those if the ban goes into effect.