Should smoking be snuffed out at local watering holes and eateries?

Lawrence Mayor David Dunfield on Tuesday plans to appoint a six-member Smoking Task Force that could lead to a ban on tobacco use in bars and restaurants, like one implemented this year in Salina.

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Dunfield is instructing the task force not to propose a solution, but to give us alternatives based on what other communities are doing.

“Those alternatives range from doing nothing to a ban.”

Members of the task force are David Kingsley of GRI Research; Peach Madl of The Sandbar; Chuck Magerl of Free State Brewery; Scott Hazelitt of GLPM Architects; Dave Hiebert, a Lawrence arts benefactor; and Judy Keller of the American Lung Association of Kansas.

The task force’s study should take about six months, Dunfield said. No meetings have been scheduled.

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