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• Smoking or non? Cost of clean air debatable  

Pennsylvania has not yet followed the examples other states have set in banning smoking from places like restaurants and bars, and it has become known as the "ashtray of the Northeast coast" since states surrounding it have enacted bans, said Jennifer Hobbs, tobacco-cessation education counselor at Gettysburg Hospital.

Rosie's, on Lincoln Way East in New Oxford, self-imposed an indoor smoking ban about three or four years ago, said Senft, who noticed the physical effects smoking had on the restaurant.

"There was a coating of yellow on our ceiling tiles, our walls, our curtains," Senft said. "We noticed a big difference in the air quality once it stopped, because there was this blue haze in there most of the time."

Pennsylvania is considering two versions of smoking ban legislation

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