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No-Smoking Ban Kicks In 

"When did smoking become a part of us?" This catch slogan is traveling cross-country alongside an image of a cigarette as a stripe on the rainbow flag.

On Jan. 1, when Illinois statewide no-smoking ban went into effect, was it a direct hit against the gay community or just against smokers? After all, numbers from the Women's Health Initiative show that gay females smoke at twice the rate of heterosexual female smokers.

Howard Brown Health Center reports that 17 percent of the overall male population smokes while 27 percent of gay men smoke do. The combined death toll of smokers and secondhand inhalers totals 438,000 annually.

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