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State law speeds up UI smoking ban  

IOWA CITY -- The University of Iowa is getting its campus ready to go smoke free sooner than originally planned because of the statewide smoking ban that begins July 1.

"Really what we've done is just accelerated our timeline to be able to address that throughout the next few weeks, months," said Joni Troester, director of UI Wellness and co-chair of the school's Smoking Policy Implementation Committee.

In February, UI President Sally Mason approved recommendations from a task force to ban smoking everywhere on campus by July 1, 2009.

That will now happen one year earlier to fall in line with the statewide ban on smoking in many public places that Gov. Chet Culver signed into law last month.

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