The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 7.15

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Clayton makes it official, banning smoking in restaurants as of next summer. (Post-Dispatch)

Perhaps not surprisingly, the Las Vegas restaurant boom has come to a screeching halt. (New York Times)

This story, if true -- and that's a big if, as these things go -- is probably the grossest thing you'll read all year. (WABC)