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EDITORIAL: Allegheny's indoor smoking ban thrown out, and little zeal exists for a statewide solution 

Although Gov. Ed Rendell has proposed a statewide public smoking ban as part of his overall health-care package, there has been no zeal among legislators to move in that direction. . . .

And when it comes to powerful influences and well-heeled lobbies, consider just who has been footing the legal bill for the two restaurants that so far have successfully fought off the Allegheny County ban, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco.

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