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Outside smoking at courthouse doors banned  

Concerns by the director of the Health Department about patient health and compliance with provisions associated with federal funding spurred the Phelps County Commission to take action Thursday.

The Commission approved banning smoking within 25 feet of any public entrance at the courthouse.

Jodi Waltman, director of the Phelps/Maries County Health Department, told commissioners the smokers who congregate near the lower-level entrance to the department posed a health risk to pregnant women and children who enter the building.

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