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• Smoking ban Day 1: So far, so good  

Friday, the smoking ban in the city of Rock Hill and York County took effect - and without a single complaint of violation, according to officials with both the city and county.

Nobody can smoke outside a public place within 10 feet of any front door either - according the rules of the ban.

But The Kickin' Pig has benches right next to the front door. So often those benches were filled with smokers. So Kickin' Pig owner Graylin Meadows, who opposed the ban but doesn't want to pay fines, brought out the orange cones from his storeroom. Meadows, cigarette in hand, irony spilling from his smiling mouth along with smoke, marched off 10 feet in a semicircle from his front door that fronts busy Cherry Road and set up a "smoke free" outdoor zone.

Then he stepped outside the semi-circle so as not to break the law.

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