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Smoking ban for Miss. employees 

Smoking on the job will soon be out of line for Ocean Springs city employees.

"We're adopting a tobacco free workplace," said Mayor, Connie Moran.

Employees also can't smoke at any city building or inside any city vehicle.

Firefighter, Brian Dawkins doesn't smoke, but many of his co-workers do. "Some of them are upset because we work on a 24 hour basis," he said. "For somebody that's used to having a tobacco habit, to not have it for a 24 hour period, it's kind of a big step to take all at once."

But Mayor Moran says there is an upside. She says the smoking ban will keep the city's rising health care premiums down by about 6 percent.

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