Local City in Smoke-Free Transition
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Updated: 2:37 PM Jun 29, 2009
Local City in Smoke-Free Transition
Smoking ordinances are hotly debated, and they now exist in about ten Kentucky cities. Lacey Steele brings us more on a city added to that list not too long ago.
Posted: 6:32 PM Jun 26, 2009
Reporter: Lacey Steele
Email Address: lacey.steele@wbko.com
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Smoking ordinances are hotly debated, and they now exist in about ten Kentucky cities.

Lacey Steele brings us more on a city added to that list not too long ago.

On June 1, the second reading of a smoking ordinance passed with about three-fourths vote in Campbellsville leaving them with 90-days to go smoke free inside public buildings.

Almost thirty days later, we met up with one restaurant to see how the transition is going.

Right now there's still a room at Creek Side Restaurant where customers can light up but not for much longer.

"We do offer smoking and non-smoking, and we have quite a bit of smokers," said Louise Wise, a manager at the restaurant. "A lot of them aren't very happy about it but it's everywhere so it's to be expected."

Wise says it seems to be the non-smokers for the ordinance and the smokers against, as many might expect, so Creek Side has decided to prepare for the future.

"We have started building an outside deck area for our smokers. I think it will help a lot of our smokers," said Wise. "Of course they're going to be upset anyway because they can't eat and smoke. I think a lot of them will have a place to go that they can smoke."

Overall Wise says the ordinance should not affect business.

"Everybody talks about they disagree with it and don't like it, but I don't think we'll lose a lot of business or nothing, if any," said Wise.

Wise says smokers, like herself and other people she knows, are being accepting of it even if they don't agree.

"If you have to go outside to smoke, you have to go outside to smoke," said Wise. "It's everywhere, you can't go in the courthouse and smoke. You can't go in anywhere and smoke. People are used to it because we have a lot of people that come in from out of town and when you ask them smoking or non-smoking they're like, 'Oh, you all still have smoking?'"

According to the ordinance, smoking will be prohibited within 15 feet from the main outside entrance of a public enclosed space.


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