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Outdoor smoking ban? No  

Athens-Clarke officials have no plans to revive talk of an outdoor smoking ban in spite of a recent University of Georgia study that found secondhand smoke is dangerous outside as well as inside.

The Athens-Clarke Commission passed a partial indoor smoking ban in 2004 and a total ban in 2005. But current commissioners said they would not support an outdoor ban or are waiting for more evidence before tackling the issue.

"Somewhere down the road, if the results keep replicating themselves, we may be looking at that," said Commissioner Alice Kinman, who voted in favor of the indoor ban.

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