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• A.C. Council to take up full smoking ban in casinos  

The nine-member Atlantic City Council is expected to take up a controversial measure later today that will prohibit smoking in all the casino floors here for the first time in the seaside resort's 30-year history of gambling.

Four council members are co-sponsors of the measure, and only one more member is needed for passage.

The call for a full smoking ban arrives on the eve of the first anniversary of the partial smoking ban that took effect April 15, 2007. That confined smoking to 25 percent of the casino floors here, also known as the "75-25 rule."

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