1.   In answer is that we are banning smoking because smoking in any form is bad for you.

2.   Amtrak, for one, bans smoking completely.

3.   A growing number of airlines have banned smoking altogether or are reducing the number of flights on which they allow it.

4.   However, long-distance trains are usually divided into smoking and nonsmoking cars, and subways and commuter trains ban smoking altogether.

5.   In addition to banning public smoking, Friendship Heights should forbid public tobacco and gum chewing.

6.   In New York, state and city smoking laws have stopped short of forcing hospitals to ban smoking, giving them the option of having specially ventilated smoking areas.

7.   It banned smoking, for example, and added amenities such as carpeting.

8.   It is the same rationale that figured in decisions last year to ban indoor smoking in the Tarrant County Jail and several other Texas lockups.

9.   It would not ban smoking outdoors, on restaurant patios, in bars or in private clubs.

10.   On Wednesday, the Town Board is to hold a public hearing on a law that would ban smoking at all town beaches.