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Sep 15, 2009
Capitol Hill’s Last Smoking Rooms Prepare to Close
Photo by cacophony76 The last two smoking rooms on Capitol Hill, in the Cannon and Longworth House Office Buildings, will close for good this week, The Hill reports. How can Congressional office buildings even have smoking rooms anymore? Because they are technically exempt from D.C. law, so they aren’t subject to the workplace smoking ban the District enacted at the beginning of 2007. But when Democrats took over Congress a couple years ago, they…