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• Smoking ban in full effect  

Guam's invitation for tourists will likely include a footnote that smoking in hotel rooms might get them in trouble with local law.

The island's attorney general said the Superior Court of Guam's June 9 decision not to stop the enforcement of portions of the new and broader no-smoking law has the effect of including bars and hotels in the ban.

There's no question restaurants are now covered by the smoking ban, Attorney General Douglas Moylan said. He added he intends to take the new law's unresolved portions -- affecting bars and hotels -- to the Guam Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, he instructed the Department of Public Health and Social Services in a letter after the court's move on Friday that, "until this question is further answered by the courts, that (establishments do) not permit any smoking in any public facilities on Guam, regardless of the installed filtration device, or face prosecution."

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