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Jump to full article: KTRE_TV (Lufkin, TX), 2008-04-15
Author: Jessica Cervantez
Intro: The city council voted to adopt the ordinance that would prohibit smoking in public places. This will go into affect, sixty days after publication. About 80-people were at the meeting, and many of them offered their opinions.
Adam Key, with the Student Government Association at Stephen F. Austin State University, said, "A gross abuse of power by the city council. They really are not considering the rights of every person. This is something that's been pushed by a radical political agenda."
Zachary Hill, a SFA student, gave the commission a petition with about 220 signatures, just asking for the commission to extend the decision, because he says a lot of residents didn't know about the vote. . . .
Members of the Healthy Nacogdoches Coalition were thankful their hard work has paid off.
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