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Webb City Council to consider ban on smoking  

Jump to full article: Joplin (MO) Globe, 2010-08-24
Author: Globe Staff Writer

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The City Council has joined the debate on whether to ban indoor smoking in public places.

Following a push by Smoke-Free Webb City, a local coalition that is partially funded by Missouri Foundation for Health, the council voted 6-2 on Monday to allow a ban on smoking to be brought before the public as either an ordinance or through a public hearing.

Council members already seemed split on the issue of whether to ban smoking in places such as restaurants. Councilman Brandon Wilson was one of the most vocal opponents to the proposed measure.

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