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Ohio's ban on smoking in nearly all indoor public places has created a lot of drama in the state, but now a lawmaker wants to create an exemption for drama's sake. Voters approved one of the country's strictest bans in November, prohibiting smoking in bars, restaurants, bowling alleys, and other indoor public places with few exceptions. The ban also appears to prohibit smoking on indoor movie sets, raising questions as to whether it could hurt state efforts to market Ohio for location shooting.

Reporters, who could once file dispassionate stories on the topic, have become as hysterical as 12-steppers falling off the wagon when assigned to write a booze story. Alcohol, strictly forbidden by the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan, is involved in a growing number of crimes committed by troops deployed to those countries. solders including the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family by a liquored-up gang from the 101st Airborne Division to...

Gabe Robinson knows he will be married only a matter of months before he's likely to redeploy to Iraq, but considers himself lucky he's been home since 2004. Between dips of chewing tobacco, they use the word "Vietnam" to describe what's happening over there. As the body count increases in Iraq, some governors have begun to voice concerns about the military's heavy use of National Guard troops. Pawhuska, a town of 3,500 people 60 miles northwest of Tulsa, will lose a member of its school...

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