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Smoking ban exemption for casinos rejected  

Lawmakers on Wednesday again rejected a plan to allow smoking in Illinois casinos.

The fight to exempt casinos -- and other places such as veteran's clubs -- from the smoking ban has been fought since the ban itself was approved by lawmakers last year. So far, no exemptions have been granted.

While a Senate committee approved a plan to exempt casinos from the ban for up to five years, saying the riverboats are seeing less income because of it, the full Senate later rejected it by a 15-35 vote.

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