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• For and against, public speaks out on smoking 

Elizabeth Myers, a cancer survivor, carried evidence of her plight around her neck. She displayed inhalers on ribbons around her neck. Passing the ordinance would mean she could go into bars to listen to her husband, a blues musician, something she can't do now.

The ordinance would close loopholes allowed in a 2005 state law, Georgia Smoke Free Air Act, including banning smoking in bars, long-term care facilities, retail tobacco stores and within 20 feet of entrances to public buildings and businesses.

The very idea upsets Richard Mika, who said he has grown tired of Savannah's over-regulation he moved to Statesboro. He still owns 12 properties in Savannah, and that gave him ground to speak his mind, he said.

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