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Key Iowa Democrat predicts smoking ban "likely" 

The top Democrat in the Iowa Senate says public attitudes about smoking have changed and if the 2008 Iowa Legislature doesn't enact a ban on smoking in most public places in Iowa, it will happen in 2009. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Gronstal of Council Bluffs says compromise on the issue is "likely" yet this year. "I believe this issue has reached a tipping point. I think it's, in fact, past the tipping point," Gronstal says. "I think if we don't pass something this year, next year we will come back and we will pass something much tougher than anything we're considering this year."

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