The Rise and Fall of the Smoking Ordinance: As the finale of his 40-year-plus career in public service, Gus Garcia carried the weight -- with help from a loud and well-funded insta-lobby of community activists -- for a drastic tightening of Austin's indoor smoking rules. Unfortunately, the people most harmed by such a change -- the city's bar and club owners, and their many friends -- were not consulted and did not go quietly
at all.
By year's end, the city was on its third ordinance of 2003, and the tobacco-free triumph went up in, well, you know.
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