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Intro: A Sunshine Coast bowls club has become the first club in Queensland to ban smoking.
The Maroochydore Swan Bowls Club ordered the ban from next Monday after last week's payout to a Port Kembla barmaid who developed throat cancer after years of passive smoking.
"The club was happy to make the decision," Bowls Club secretary Nev Linde said.
"It would have preferred the Government to have banned smoking."
Mr Linde says so far the reaction from people he has spoken with has been positive.
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