One year ago Friday, nurse Kathy Bauer said good-bye to cigarettes, and she hasn?t gone back.

She did not go willingly ? her employer Greater Baltimore Medical Center announced that beginning Jan. 1, 2006, the entire medical campus would be smoke-free.

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