URBANA - Urbana has joined neighboring Champaign and a growing list of Illinois cities to prohibit smoking in most public places, including restaurants and bars.

The City Council voted 6-to-1 Monday night to approve the no-smoking ordinance. It will be effective Aug. 1 in restaurants and restaurant lounges, but bars will not have to comply until early next year.

"These things take time," said attorney Tom Koester, who represents owners of 10 Urbana bars. He persuaded the council to extend the deadline for posting no-smoking signs until Jan. 1, 2007.

Some of the bar owners are looking at adding separate doors for smokers who wish to step outside, canopies to cover outdoor smoking areas and outdoor seating where the new rules will allow smoking, Koester said.

Champaign's city council approved a smoking ban last month, timed to go into effect Aug. 1 so long as Urbana also passed a no-smoking ordinance. But Urbana officials said the Champaign ordinance includes a provision putting it into effect 30 days later than Urbana if Urbana chose a different effective date.

The effect of Urbana's Jan. 1 deadline for bars on Champaign's ordinance was not immediately clear Tuesday.

Urbana's intent is to begin enforcing the smoking ban in bars on Feb. 1, after a monthlong education period, said Alderman Charlie Smith.

Alderwoman Heather Stevenson was the only dissenting vote.

"I don't think we should be a Third World dictator city that tells these people they have to go smoke-free," she said.

Other Illinois cities that have enacted no-smoking ordinances include Chicago, Bloomington, Normal and Springfield.

Cook County also has enacted a ban that will affect more than 100 Chicago suburbs, and similar ordinances are being considered in more than three dozen other communities.