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City gets smoking petition 

Somebody, it seems, didn't like the smoking ban compromise after all.

Smokers in mostly smoke-free Green River hardly had time to come in out of the cold and back into the bars before a petition was submitted to city officials seeking to overturn the town's new smoking ordinance.

But just who exactly submitted the petition remains a mystery, city officials and bar owners said Monday.

"It certainly wasn't us," said Ponderosa Bar owner Bobby Easton, who is also president of the Green River Liquor Dealers Association. . . .

Council members approved a revised smoking ordinance last month exempting bars, taverns and private clubs after reaching a compromise of sorts with bar owners.

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