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Homeless Smokers

Making an exception at the shelter

by Eve Silberman

posted 12/12/2010

Cigar bars aside, about the last place in Ann Arbor where you can still smoke indoors is the DeLonis Center--the homeless shelter has three ventilated rooms for nicotine-addicted residents. Administrator Mike Austin says Delonis asked for an exemption because it would be too chaotic to send smokers outside: "When people are on the residential floors at night, we

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