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FRANKFORT, Ky. City leaders in Frankfort are asking restaurants to ban smoking. The Frankfort city commission adopted a resolution 4-to-one this week that would request restaurants and other businesses that serve food to voluntarily ban smoking. The resolution is a request and is not enforceable. The city is studying the need for a smoking ban ordinance. Commissioner Rodney Williams voted against the measure on Monday, saying he could not vote to ban something that is legal.Several other Kentucky cities and counties -- including Lexington and Louisville -- have enacted or are considering some form of smoking ban. 

Did years of singing in smoky nightclubs kill Dana Reeve, the widow of paralysed Superman actor Christopher Reeve? She died yesterday of lung cancer even though she was not a smoker. "Ten to 15 per cent of people who develop lung cancer are thought to be non-smokers. It was said that she had, in the course of being an entertainer, spent a lot of time in pubs, in nightclubs, in which there is a lot of cigarette smoke," said Dr James Mulshine from Rush University Medical Centre in Chicago. Reeve, 44, won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her husband...