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Franklin ban snuffs out smoking

Tavern owners in Franklin will mothball their ashtrays next month following the passage of a smoking ban May 4. City councilors
voted 6-1 to make the ban one of the most restrictive in the state.

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With pharma famine looming, Lilly relying on snack-size deals

Compared with some of his pharmaceutical CEO peers these days, John Lechleiter has his company on a diet. Instead of using a mega-merger to bulk up before the famine that patent expirations will bring on the industry next year,
Lechleiter has Eli Lilly and Co. burning management fat while looking for smaller companies to munch on.

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Universal health care? Bring it on!

With American ingenuity, we can achieve universal health care coverage without the bloated administrative costs found in our
system of private insurance companies.

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Doctors squirm as patients rate health care

As health care slowly shifts to operate more like retail stores, patients’ opinions of doctors have become commonplace on more than 30 physician-rating Web sites, including a subscription service run by Indianapolis-based Angie’s List.

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Beware universal health care

Any administration considering a tax-funded universal health care system that is free at the point of delivery would do well to examine Britain’s National Health Service.

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