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City charter criteria allowed significantly less than 2 percent of the population, at huge cost to the city, to force a re-vote on the smoking ban we passed only last year. It is terribly important that Springfieldians who favor the ban on smoking in ... read more...

The Casper City Council voted late Tuesday to approve a ban on smoking in public places, the first of three votes necessary for the measure to become law. Councilmen Paul Bertoglio and Bill Brauer cast the only votes against the proposal, ... read more...

Re: VIHA takes aim at smokers, (Daily News, May 18) Dr. Paul Hasselback urges our council to impose even more restrictions on public smoking. He also calls for a ban on the sale of hookah pipes. What are the scientific studies that form the basis of ... read more...

The packet includes a number of studies and reports examining the health and economic impacts of a smoking ban. Opponents of the ban have said it would infringe upon business owner's rights and that people have freedom of choice about what ... read more...