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One New York county -- Suffolk -- adopted a ban on Tuesday.
New York City has adopted a ban that starts March 30.
A recent minority government that was supported by the PVV adopted a ban on burkas, a ban on double citizenship and other anti-immigrant policies.
He also noted that in 1987, Britain adopted a ban on providing information about homosexuality to children nearly identical to the Russian law.
In Prince George's County, Md., dog bites from pit pulls dropped noticeably last year, three years after the county adopted a ban and put about 2,400 dogs to death.
Japan is a member of the International Whaling Commission, which adopted a ban on commercial whaling that took effect in 1986, but the convention allows signers to engage in limited hunts of whales for scientific purposes.
"This measure doesn't force towns to adopt a ban on smoking," Mr. Blumenthal said.
Forty-one other states have considered the issue in the last three years, but New York is the first to adopt a ban.
Some cities have decided that limiting decibel levels makes more sense than adopting a ban, said Larry Will, a spokesman for Echo, a blower manufacturer, in an e-mail.
The Los Angeles Times: California adopts a ban on serving shark fin, which is good news for shark populations, though not such good news for shark fin soup lovers.
Closer to home, Senator Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat of New Jersey, has introduced a measure that would require states to adopt a ban on hand-held phones or face losing federal transportation funds.
