Jump to full article: USA Today, 2009-11-30
Author: Margaret Gillerman St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Intro: St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay plans for Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to be completely smoke-free when the city's new smoking ban takes effect in January 2011.
And that includes the airport's smoking lounges.
Slay commented on his blog this week after fielding questions from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about a conflict between the new St. Louis County smoking ban which exempts the smoking lounges and the city ban which does not. Both take effect on Jan. 2, 2011.
Slay noted that the airport is a "political hybrid," in that it is in St. Louis County but owned by the city. But the decision on smoking, Slay said on his blog, belongs to the city, "as owner of the facility."
St. Louis County counselor Patricia Redington said the smoking lounge exemption is clear in the county ordinance.
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