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Contractor says smoking ban being violated  

A plumber working at the Thunder Mountain High School construction site recently reported to the city that workers were smoking inside and he wanted it to stop.

The city bans smoking at workplaces. The last phase of the city's smoking prohibition, which bans smoking in bars, went into effect Jan. 2.

Jeremy Roselle said Thunder Mountain is being built with "tobacco-stained" walls from workers' smoke as they rush to finish the school by the August deadline. He said some workers top off the indoor air pollution by throwing cigarette butts into spaces between the walls of the $60 million school.

"The walls are full of cigarette butts," he said. "It's unsanitary."

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