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Article: Dallas could make it tougher for puffers: Many council members now say they'd favor expanded smoking law.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2007
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Byline: Dave Levinthal
Aug. 2--Smokers still enjoy some refuge in Dallas, where puffing away inside a bar or atop an outdoor restaurant deck is perfectly legal.
But interviews with members of the newly constituted Dallas City Council indicate most are willing to entertain an expanded anti-smoking ordinance, as Plano and Frisco recently have enacted.
And several, including Mayor Tom Leppert, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and veteran council members Angela Hunt and Mitchell Rasansky, now say they'd vote for an outright smoking ban that included public places -- such as bars -- not included in the city's current ordinance.
Such ...