Proposal would ban smoking in some restaurants

CHAMPAIGN – As the noon hour grew closer on a recent day, the lunch crowd at Taffies Restaurant in west Champaign got larger.

And the air in the restaurant got a little smokier.

While 115 restaurants in Champaign have gone completely smoke-free in recent years, a majority of the city's roughly 280 food-service establishments, including Taffies, 301 S. Mattis Ave., still allow smoking.

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