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City of Columbia to enforce new smoking ban after court's OK
Jump to full article: The Gamecock (University of South Carolina), 2008-04-09
Author: Haley Dreis Staff Writer
Intro: Columbia will enforce a ban on smoking in public restaurants and bars on July 1 in light of a recent State Supreme Court ruling.
The city council of Columbia created the ordinance based on its findings that "secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., killing 53,000 Americans prematurely each year."
The new ban is a revamped version of the original ordinance, which had been put on hold from November 2006. Violators of the newly enforced ban will face a civil penalty instead of a criminal penalty.
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