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Hundreds pack meeting for public comment.
Jump to full article: WVNS-TV CBS 59 (Ghent, WV), 2008-03-27
Intro: "This is a clear health threat and there is no safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke," said Beverly Keener, the Regional Tobacco Prevention Coordinator.
Nearly 200 people packed the Board of Health meeting Thursday to comment on the proposed smoking ban.
"Help me be able to provide my children with the opportunity that everyone should be able to have," Shari Kellems said, "to go bowling, to go to restaurants to have opportunities they deserve to have."
But others believe they deserve the right to choose.
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