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Emotions smolder at forum on smoking 

Montgomery was one of the nearly 70 Clark County residents who ventured Thursday to George Rogers Clark High School to voice their opinion on the county’s smoking ban, which the Clark County Board of Health recently adopted. The board will meet July 17 for approval.

“We want to hear from you, that’s why we’re here,” Public Health Director Scott Lockard said before the forum. “…Sometimes this can be a very emotional issue.” . . .

The new regulation will ban smoking in public places including businesses, restaurants, bars, galleries, libraries and museums, as well as in health care and day care facilities and in private clubs when used for a public function.

Business owner Mary Kay Haggard asked if smoking is so harmful, then why let farmers grow tobacco? She responded to her own question with an answer: money. And it’s the money she paid to start her business that makes the ban unfair, she said.

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