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Private clubs ask to keep smoking rules 

The only people who showed up at a public forum on whether smoking should be eliminated at private clubs were members of private clubs who thought smoking should not be eliminated.

The forum was held in Town Hall Monday night because of inspections last month in which seven private clubs were found to be violating state smoking laws. The clubs allowed nonmembers to come inside and smoke without signing in, according to Health Director Thomas Purcell. That makes them public clubs, he said.

"What happened happened ... but I think that's kind of harsh," Stephen Soltys of the Polish American Veterans, 30 Ray St., said of the possibility of eliminating smoking because of the violations.

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