Area nurses endorse smoking ban

With just a little over a week until the election, another group has weighed in on the smoking ban. The {http://hapnn.tripod.com/ Heartland Advanced Practice Nurses Network} on Saturday announced its endorsement of the smoking ban that will be decided by voters on April 5. The group is based in Cape Girardeau, but has members from Sikeston to Perryville. "As advanced practice nurses, we have seen the impact of secondhand smoke in our patients and the community," the organization said in a...