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• Haze of smoking ban still lingers  

It's been six months since the city implemented the final stages of an ordinance that required all bars to become smoke free, and a cloud of mixed feelings still lingers over the community half a year later.

Some smokers are indifferent to the change and have embraced the new clean air regulations, some nonsmokers continue to disagree with the local government's clamp-down on personal freedoms, while others have concerns about the congregations of people clogging up the sidewalks and the mosaic of cigarette butts discarded in the gutters.

While smoking a cigarette outside the Imperial Billiard & Saloon recently, Nick Fargnoli said he enjoys the bar atmosphere more since the clean air ordinance went into effect.

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