BOSTON - General Electric Co. is known for exporting American products like washing machines and jet engines, and the biggest U.S. conglomerate is getting ready to ship out another American trend — the outdoor smoking ban. The world's largest maker of jet engines this week told employees that it plans to ban smoking on all GE property — both indoors and out — worldwide starting in March 2011. The Fairfield, Connecticut-based company already prohibits indoor smoking at about 80 percent of its...
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