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Excerpts from: Smokes Join Beer on List of No-Nos At Medals Plaza for 2002 Games
 
      BY REBECCA WALSH,  THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE [10/31/00]

          Salt Lake City's Olympic medals plaza will be alfresco. No roof. No
      permanent walls.
          Still, with security fences surrounding the parking lot at 300 West and
      South Temple, the whole block will fall under Utah's Indoor Clean Air
      Act. So smokers will have to puff outside the gate.

       The plaza smoking ban is easy to justify.
      Sports stadiums nationwide -- including Rice-Eccles Stadium, site of the
      opening and closing ceremonies during the 2002 Games -- have adopted
      no-smoking rules in recent years.