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Springdale, Pine Ridge Set to Move on Smoking Bans 

Jump to full article: Columbia (SC) Free Times, 2009-10-07
Author: AL DOZIER

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The workplace smoking ban recently adopted by Lexington County is putting the heat on other local councils to follow the lead.

The Town of Springdale, located about a mile north of the Columbia Metropolitan Airport, was scheduled to give second and final reading to a proposed workplace ban at its Oct. 6 meeting, according to Town Administrator Natalie McKelvey.

"It mirrors the Lexington County ordinance," McKelvey says.

Like the Lexington ordinance, it would not go into effect until Jan. 1 of next year.

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