Business Owners Challenge Smoking Ban

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Julia Pizzonia

A week has passed since the Harrison County  Clean Indoor Air Regulation went into affect, and business owners say they're already having a hard time staying afloat.

Bar employees, restaurant owners, and video lottery establishment owners packed the commission room Thursday morning to ask questions about the ban and if commissioners can come to their rescue.

The Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department's Chad Bundy, and Prosecuting Attorney Joe Shaffer took as many questions as they possibly could leaving people still unhappy.

Shaffer tells us four places including, the Blue Knights, FOP, Elks 1 and Elks 2 will not comply with the ordinance and had to be given misdemeanor citations.

They claim their raffling license should give them an exemption.

Shaffer and commissioners seemed to side with of all of those against this ban.

And commissioners did file a motion to send a letter to the Board of Health to ask for the old ordinance to be reenacted.

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