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Mayor Favors Smoking Ban  

As South Dakota lawmakers debate smoking on a statewide level, Aberdeen's mayor, Mike Levsen, says he knows what he'd do if he could: There would be no smoking in Aberdeen.

"It's not a question of free choice," Levsen said. "It's a question of public health. We don't allow employers to have other unsafe working conditions. We don't allow restaurants to have dirty kitchens. Why should we allow them to have dirty air?"

According to existing state law, the Legislature is the exclusive regulator of all matters relating to the use of tobacco

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