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Airport committee: Total smoking ban 'not the right move'  

Jump to full article: WBBH NBC2 (Tallahassee, FL), 2009-12-22
Author: Katie LaGrone

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FORT MYERS: An airport advisory board with Southwest Florida International Airport agreed that a total smoking ban is not necessary. However, they did agree to make some changes.

The airport attracts 15-million visitors every year and the decision could potentially affect about 3-million of them.

In response to Lee County Commissioners' request to look at the possibility of a total smoking ban on the campus of the airport, members of the Southwest Florida International Airport Special Management Committee instead decided to recommend a compromise.

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