Council member Chris Walsh said bar owners have told them the total ban has hurt their businesses by pushing customers to bars with smoking outside city limits.
Casper City Council on Tuesday approved actions about two liquor licenses, but not before a restaurant owner and the mayor blamed the changes on the voter-approved smoking ban in November.
Casper residents who want to vote on the smoking referendum before the Nov. 3 election may cast absentee ballots now, Natrona County Clerk Renea Vitto said Tuesday.
Casper City Council isn't waiting for its next regular meeting to take the next step about voting for two ordinances to repeal two smoking ban ordinances.
Casper City Council voted to repeal the 2013 softened version of the hard-and-fast 2012 smoking ban, and then voted to repeal the 2012 version itself after a two-hour public hearing and council discussion on Tuesday.
Casper City Council had no choice Tuesday but to follow state law when it suspended a 2013 relaxed version of a near-total smoking ban in buildings in Casper.
Casper College has adopted new policy with regards to smoking indoors, part of the new policy includes forbidding the use of electronic cigarettes from campus buildings.
UPDATE 3:30 p.m. Wednesday: Per Smokefree Natrona County's Facebook page, over 2,850 signatures have been gathered.
UPDATE 8:10 p.m. Tuesday: Officials with Keep Casper Smoke Free, the referendum committee trying to overturn changes to the city of Casper’s controversial public smoking ban, say they think they have the needed number of signatures for a referendum...
An anti-smoking group looking to revert changes to the city of Casper’s public smoking ban says it’s getting close to the number of signatures it needs for a referendum.
Keep Casper Smoke Free co-chairperson Kimberly Holloway says her group is nearing the 2,465 signatures it needs by July 17 to force a special election in August...
A group looking to reverse changes to the city of Casper’s controversial public indoor smoking ordinance is on its way toward gathering the 2,460 signatures needed to force a special election in August.
287 people signed Keep Casper Smoke Free’s petition for a referendum on Friday during a rally at Conwell Park...