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Smoking ban not an easy choice  

Rosie's Restaurant eliminated smoking from inside its walls, but deciding to clear the air is not easy for some businesses.

"It was a scary move to make, but we haven't regretted it," said Sue Senft, who has owned Rosie's with her husband, Pat, for nine years.

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

Rosie's, 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.

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