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More firms ban smoking anywhere on site 

Jump to full article: Seattle (WA) Times, 2005-04-24
Author: Christine L. Romero-The Arizona Republic

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To help cut skyrocketing medical costs, companies nationwide are creating smoking bans so tough that smokers need to go all the way off company property for a puff.

Some companies are banning all tobacco use on every square inch of corporate property -- from the parking lots to the doorways where smokers routinely huddle.

Military insurer USAA is the latest to enact such a ban, including cigarettes and chewing tobacco, on its 500-acre Phoenix campus.

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