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Dallas County proposes a smoke-free Founders Plaza  

Dallas County commissioners will discuss banning smoking in the county's new landscaped outdoor plaza Tuesday morning to make it more friendly to visitors and eliminate the eyesore of discarded cigarette butts.

County officials have proposed adding Founders Plaza to its current list of designated non-smoking areas. Commissioners will vote on it next week.

Outdoor smoking bans have created controversy in other American cities because there is no scientific evidence that walking by someone who's smoking outside creates a health hazard. The motive in some other cities was to discourage loitering. In Dallas County, it's for different aesthetic reasons -- employees are littering the plaza with cigarette butts.

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