To help kick the habit of smoking, Glasgow residents are hoping to resurrect a previous ordinance that would ban smoking in all public buildings.

Linda Craiger supports a ban on public smoking, but it's not just for her own health.

"My mother has lung disease of long-standing and its difficult for her to be in a place where people are smoking," she says.

Cardiologist Melissa Walton-Shirley estimates nearly 1,000 Kentuckians will die of first or second-hand smoke within the next twelve months.

That's why Walton-Shirley and other residents are taking the fight to the city governments in both Barren and Warren counties.

"We're approaching our city council as well as asking for the Bowling Green city commissioners to consider a smoke-free ordinance for their city," Walton-Shirley says.

The Glasgow city council tabled the ordinance indefinitely back in May of 2008.

A smoking ban also failed to pass in the Bowling Green City Commission Chambers.

The proposal was defeated 3 to 2 back in 2007, although smoking in city-run buildings and parks was eventually outlawed.

The ordinance's author, Brian "Slim" Nash tells WBKO that while he still supports a public ban, there are no immediate plans to bring it back before the commission.

"To limit that and get college students to not start or quit is always a plus," he says.

Western kentucky University junior Gordon Deming is talking about Kentucky universities also changing smoking policies.

Recently, the University of Kentucky prohibited all tobacco on campus, while the University of Louisville banned smoking in most parts.

WKU created designated smoking areas nearly 5 years ago.

In Glasgow, Doctor Walton-Shirley and Craiger are convinced by predecessor cities like London and Campbellsville that a smoking ban can be successful if only given a chance.

"We have several of our city council members supporting this issue and 70 percent of our population doesn't smoke," says Walton-Shirley.

"The rest of kentucky needs to take this into account when they are looking into this issue and whether they can vote for it or whether they cannot," says Craiger.