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LETTER: More smoke ban talk even when current pact works 

Smoke Free Indy, along with an auxiliary group, Tobacco Free Kids, is once again pushing for a comprehensive smoking ban in Marion County. The usual motive is employee rights and patron rights. I work as a bartender in Marion County, and Smoke Free Indy has never asked me about what I think. . . .

Smoking bans elsewhere in Indiana have closed more than 100 bars, putting employees and owners on the already swollen unemployment rolls, along with removing the ability of responsible adults to make their own decisions. Modern smoking bans serve only to allow a bullying majority to impose their will on a less-vocal minority who just want to be left alone.

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