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Jump to full article: Mobile (AL) Press-Register, 2008-05-01
Author: BRIAN LYMAN Capital Bureau
Intro: MONTGOMERY Smoking would be banned in most indoor public places in Alabama under a bill approved by the state Senate on Wednesday.
The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Vivian Davis Figures, D-Mobile, forbids smoking in restaurants, sporting arenas and many other indoor areas. It also would apply to bars that make at least 20 percent of their money from food sales.
Figures sponsored a 2003 law that prohibited smoking in some public places, but had been unable to win an expansion of the ban until Wednesday.
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