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Jump to full article: KTVX ABC4 (Salt Lake City, UT), 2009-11-19
Intro: MURRAY, Utah (ABC 4 News)- The signs are proudly displayed all over Intermountain Medical Center in Murray. Starting Thursday the hospital will be tobacco free.
Larry Hancock, Region VP for Intermountain’s Hospitals in the Salt Lake Valley said,” Our hospitals are places of healing, and promoting health is central to intermountain’s mission.”
However, that smoking ban at Salt Lake area Intermountain Healthcare hospitals includes the area outside of the healthcare centers. Penny Pixston says the smoking ban is going too far. Pixston says she's 53-years old and has been smoking since she was a teen.
She says even lung surgery can't stop her from kicking the habit.
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