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With the ink still wet on legislation establishing tough new policies on smoking in restaurants, clubs, bars and other workplaces in New York City, the Bloomberg administration is already pushing ahead with plans to further extend bans on smoking as the City Health Department writes new regulations to effectuate the legislation. The latest rules promulgated by the Health Department would ban smoking by inmates in city jails, and may be followed by new Health Department rules governing smoking policies in college dorms---all of which would apply when the recently passed legislation goes into effect on March 31. The rules are part of a joint push by NYC, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties to protect workers from exposure to the hazards of second-hand smoke on the job (see WIT for Oct. 7, 2002).