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Smoking ban prompts healthy debate

Proposed plan in Kanagawa prefecture would be the first of its kind in Japan

By Allison Batdorff and Hana Kusumoto, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, May 10, 2008
Allison Batdorff / S&S
Seaman James Parmes smokes in one of the designated smoking gazebos at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan. Outside the gates, Kanagawa Prefecture is considering banning all indoor public smoking.
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