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‘Go slow on smoke ban’

August 1, 2003 - 12:00am

Tourism Secretary Richard Gordon has appealed to mayors nationwide to defer the crafting of their respective smoking ordinances until an inter-agency body has come up with the implementing rules and regulations of...

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