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Article: Cook County douses indoor smoking beginning in 2007
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- Norridge News (IL)
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- March 23, 2006
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Although it will be lights out for smokers in Cook County beginning in March 2007, local ordinances will be avble to supersede the ban on public puffing.
Whether communities decide to have a stricter or more lax policy on smoking in public places is up to local councils, said Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley, D-10th, who sponsored the Clean Indoor Air Ordinance.
Approximately 15 Cook County suburbs have some type of smoking ordinance but more than 100, including Norridge and Harwood Heights, do not.
The county ordinance, passed March 15 by a 13-3 margin, will prohibit smoking in bars, restaurants and virtually all other indoor workplaces in unincorporated Cook County or communities ...