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County commissioners to again consider heated issues 

Also on the agenda is a committee Dunn set up to study the county’s 2-month-old smoking ordinance.

While few restaurateurs showed an interest in the decision when it was made late last year, dozens showed up to protest after the new law went into place in April. . . .

Dunn hopes to place two men from opposite sides of the debate on the five-person committee — Steve Coldiron, the chairman of Smoke-Free Gwinnett and one of the biggest proponents of the law, and Bill Gentry, owner of Gwinnett’s only indoor entertainment hall, Wild Bill’s, who asked for an exception and considered a lawsuit over the ordinance.

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