Tuesday, March 18 2008
By RICHARD FELLINGER
Evening Sun Harrisburg Bureau
A legislative panel soon will face a big decision that will dictate whether Pennsylvania joins growing list of states to ban smoking in most public places.
A House-Senate conference committee is expected to meet April 1 in an attempt to reach a compromise on a bill to ban indoor public smoking in restaurants and other workplaces.
The six-member conference committee was formed because the House and Senate passed different versions of smoking ban last year. Debate has raged about whether to include taverns, clubs and casinos in a smoking ban.
Rep. Ron Miller, R-Jacobus, sits on the conference committee and said there does not yet appear to be a consensus after a series of meetings and public hearings ended last week.
"I don't know where it's going to go," Miller said.
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