Byline: -- Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- With smoking banned on flights within U.S. borders, the Senate is now trying to prohibit it on international flights.
``This is good politics in the United States because there is a strong anti-smoking lobby,'' Wanda Potrykus, spokeswoman for the Montreal-based International Air Transport Association, said Friday. ``However, there is an equally virulent pro-smoking lobby in Asia and France.''
In a late-night voice vote Thursday, the Senate added an amendment to a $47.1 billion transportation …
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