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Hearing today will lure 2 sides of issue Thursday, March 04, 2004 HARTFORD — Restaurant owners and local health directors will square off at the state Capitol today over proposed legislation that would allow restaurants and bars to create separate smoking rooms as an exemption in Connecticut's new smoking ban. The bill has appeared less than a year after the General Assembly passed one of the nation's first statewide smoking bans and represents one of the first tests many predicted would pop up this year as opponents probed for weaknesses in the new law. "I think that the law that...