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Use Smokeout to get head start on ban  

Jump to full article: Baltimore (MD) Sun, 2007-11-15
Author: Meredith Cohn * Sun reporter November 15, 2007

Intro:

Come January, lighting up in a restaurant or bar in Baltimore will be banned. In February, the ban goes statewide.

With the limits, Maryland will join more than 2,200 communities and 17 states now smoke-free - covering more than half the country's population. And many local restaurants have already gone smoke-free. Airplanes are out. And other facilities, such as Howard County General Hospital, are getting in on the ban early.

So why not get a jump on things by quitting now? Today is the American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout.

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