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EDITORIAL: Smokeless at last ... 

Eighty one years after the first detailed statistical study showing that heavy smokers were more likely to develop lung cancer, the state has decided that people shouldn't have to be exposed to cigarette smoke when they go to work or out for a meal.

Effective Monday, Nebraska is officially 100 percent smoke free, requiring all indoor work spaces and public places to become smoke-free. . . .

We've certainly come a long way from the days when cigarettes were provided to soldiers as part of their rations and advertisers touted the positive health effects of tobacco.

And that routine question, "Smoking or non-smoking?" will be relegated to the ashtray of history.

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