
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 27, 1991                   TAG: 9102270559
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: GREENSBORO, N.C.                                LENGTH: Short

GREENSBORO VOTERS RETAIN SMOKING LAW

The toughest anti-smoking ordinance in the nation's top tobacco-producing state, approved by a scant 173 votes in 1989, won a big vote of confidence Tuesday.

With 43 of 56 precincts counted, 16,304 voters supported the current law, while 7,150 had voted to repeal it and make compliance voluntary.

The 1989 ordinance bans smoking in elevators and large retail stores, requires large restaurants to set aside 25 percent of seats for non-smokers and mandates $25 fines for violators. The measure on Tuesday's ballot would have made compliance voluntary. - Associated Press

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