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Article: Reaction mixed to smoke-free bowling hours: A decline in weekend customers in part drove NRV SuperBowl to adopt smoke-free hours.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2007
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Byline: Jared Turner
Sep. 26--CHRISTIANSBURG -- Alice Wrenn has strong feelings against cigarette smoking in public places.
"You can't smoke in malls, and you can't smoke in grocery stores," the Christiansburg resident said. "Why can you smoke in bowling lanes?"
At NRV SuperBowl, where Wrenn participates in a seniors bowling league every Monday afternoon with her husband, Buck, she recently got her wish -- at least all day on Saturdays and on Tuesdays before 10 p.m.
For the first time since the Christiansburg center opened almost 11 years ago, smoking is off limits during those hours after a wave of customer complaints -- and a steady ...