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Smoking ban looms for next dart tourney set for Rapid City 

Smoking is being phased out at Rapid City's Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, site of this weekend's South Dakota State Dart Tournament, which means the next time Rapid City hosts it in 2010, the building will be smoke-free.

This year's tourney has attracted about 4,000 people - many of whom smoke.

Participants Amy Goodrich and Heather Wurts of Highmore say the civic center may see numbers dwindle if the city doesn't reinstate a smoking exception for the dart tournament.

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