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• Clearing the air: Voters approve smoking ban by wide margin 

Here's the good news, smokers: You've got over a year to get used to puffing outside.

Voters in St. Louis County have overwhelmingly approved a ban on smoking in restaurants and most other indoor businesses. The vote means that smoke-free legislation approved by St. Louis aldermen -- which was contingent on a similar proposal passing in the county -- will also become law.

Both the county and city prohibitions will not go into effect until January 2011.� And both measures contain plenty of exceptions.

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