Public Indoor Smoking Ban

There’s still no word yet on whether Keep Casper Smoke Free's suit against the city of Casper will proceed to trial after both sides met for a summary judgment hearing earlier this year. “I’m as anxious to hear back from the judge as everybody else,” Keep Casper Smoke Free co-chairperson Kimberly Holloway said...

Keep Casper Smoke Free says attorneys with the anti-smoking group, which is trying to overturn a partial repeal of the city of Casper's public indoor smoking ban, met with city attorneys for a summary judgment hearing last week. “Both sides made motions to the judge basically saying that this really doesn’t need to go to trial,” Keep Casper Smoke Free co-chair Kimberly Holloway said on Wednesday..

Officials with Keep Casper Smoke Free say the anti-smoking group’s lawsuit against the city of Casper will go to trial next year. According to a post on Keep Casper Smoke Free’s FundRazr page, the trial has been scheduled for March 2014...

Smokefree Natrona County officials say they’re preparing to launch a referendum campaign if Casper City Council passes sweeping changes to the city of Casper's public indoor smoking ordinance. Council approved the second reading of an amended smoking ban on Tuesday that would allow smoking within Casper taverns, lounges, bars, private clubs and healthcare facilities...

City councilors in Casper are now one step away from making sweeping changes to a controversial city-wide ban on smoking in public places. After 45 minutes of debate and public discussion at its regular meeting Tuesday night, Casper City Council narrowly passed the second reading of the city’s revised public indoor smoking ordinance 5-4...

Smokefree Natrona County says it will try to derail future attempts by Casper City Council to amend Casper’s current public indoor smoking ordinance. Officials with the organization say they’ll try to sway council opinion on amending the ordinance by the time it reaches council for a second or third reading...

Casper City Council took its first of three steps toward significantly changing Casper’s public indoor smoking ordinance Tuesday night.

Casper City Council says it will attempt to amend portions of the city’s controversial public indoor smoking ban. The decision was made after over an hour of debate during council’s regular work session Tuesday night.

A city official says several Casper City Council members want sections of the city’s controversial public indoor smoking ban to be amended. Ward I councilman Steve Hopkins outlined a series of possible amendments to the ordinance prior to council’s regular meeting on Tuesday...

Casper City Council is inching closer toward its first vote on the possible repeal of the city’s controversial public indoor smoking ban. At a work session last Friday morning, council discussed the cost of a special election if the ordinance were to be repealed and if supporters of the ban were able to collect enough signatures for a referendum...