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Now that the city is planning to move forward with a ban on smoking in public parks, a new battleground has opened up in the war on tobacco. Several NYC landlords are now planning to ban smoking in their buildings and are informing tenants that if they smoke inside their apartments, they may be subject to eviction. If you happen to live in one of those buildings and you're a smoker, perhaps you could try and work out an exemption by pretending you have chronic back pain? Hey, you never know. [NYT]