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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowHancock County commissioners on Dec. 8 tabled a strict no-smoking ordinance for the county.
The measure proposed by the Hancock County Health Department would ban smoking in all public places, including bars.
Commissioners tabled it in part to look at a handful of legal details and to allow more
time to notify municipalities in the county, some of which already have no-smoking policies in place, said Ray Haas, health
officer of Hancock County.
The proposed measure would be tougher than Greenfield’s no-smoking ordinance, which exempts bars.
The picture could become cloudier early next year, when statewide legislation to ban smoking likely will resurface in the
Indiana General Assembly.
A measure by State Rep. Charlie Brown, D-Gary, died in the House Public Policy Committee, last January. It would have banned
smoking in most public places.
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