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Jump to full article: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 2008-01-21
Author: ROBERT J. SMITH
Intro: For the first time since Fayetteville voters authorized a smoking ban in February 2004, the city's prosecutor expects a court battle with businesses ticketed for violating the ordinance.
City Prosecutor Casey Jones said Evelyn Longstreth, a bartender at Art's Place, 2530 N. College Ave., and Mark Wright, the owner of On the Mark, 2588 N. Gregg Ave., will be arraigned Feb. 1.
"I think these are going to be trials," Jones said. . . .
"I think there are a few folks who don't understand or pretend they don't understand, but by and large, people are adhering to the ordinance," Coody said. "I haven't heard any complaints since a week after the law went into effect.” Fayetteville, Fairfield Bay, Pine Bluff and Highfill have smoking ordinances, and a statewide ban against smoking in public places took effect in July 2006.
The Fayetteville law bans smoking in enclosed public places, except stand-alone bars that only serve alcohol.
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