MN House backs statewide smoking ban

04/26/2007

By Mark Brunswick, Star Tribune
Last update: April 26, 2007


The Minnesota House approved a statewide smoking ban Thursday, but with more loopholes than a Senate version passed earlier, setting the stage for a showdown in a conference committee that will try to find compromise.

The House bill would eliminate most indoor smoking in public places, including bars and restaurants, VFWs, American Legion posts and bingo halls. But it would allow bar and restaurant owners who get most of their revenue from liquor to install separate indoor smoking rooms, where there would be no service, if they received approval from local governments.

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