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<br />-18.01. Smoking Tobacco.
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<br />Library References ,
<br />Tex.Prac., Texas Criminal Forms & Trial
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<br />§ 48.01. Smoking Tobacco ~
<br />(a) A person commits an offense if he is in possek~r~r, of a b~
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<br />displayed a reasonably sized notice that smoking is Ycil~ibit~d ~~Y sta~~e1<<rt~ ;f'a~ ,
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<br />(c) All conveyances and public places set out iri. 'ttbscCti~tt (;i) r,C;~~e~ ti~ir2 t ' "~
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