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Article: Drive Begins for Smoking-Ban Changes in Dallas.
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- March 13, 2003
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By Mary Mckee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 13--DALLAS--A group opposed to the new smoking ban launched a petition drive Wednesday aimed at forcing the City Council to adopt more lenient restrictions.
Leaders of the Dallas Democracy Project, composed of restaurant and bar owners and proprietors of other businesses, hope to collect 47,000 signatures during the next 60 days, which would force the council to consider their compromise ordinance or call for a public vote on the issue.
Instead of banning smoking in restaurants and retail establishments, as is now the law, the compromise would allow ...