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Airport approves smoking ban  

Jump to full article: Greensboro (NC) News & Record, 2009-07-29
Author: High Point Enterprise

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Smoke 'em if you got 'em through the end of next month inside the terminal at Piedmont Triad International Airport.

Starting Sept. 1, passengers, visitors and workers at the airport only will be able to smoke outside.

The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority, reflecting new restrictions passed earlier this year by the N.C. General Assembly, will prohibit all cigarette and other tobacco smoking, eliminating a pair of designated indoor smoking areas.

The authority, the airport's governing board, unanimously passed the new rule during its monthly meeting in the board room at PTIA.

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