Another community in Colorado is on its way to being smoke-free.

Pueblo voters upheld an ordinance to ban smoking in bars, restaurants, bowling alleys, bingo halls and most other indoor public spaces.

The final tally from Tuesday's special election was 59 to 4 percent in favor of the smoking ban.

The Pueblo City Council first approved the measure last December. It took effect Jan. 1, but within two weeks, opponents gathered enough petition signatures to force a special election challenging the law and asking voters to recall four council members who supported it.

Under Pueblo's charter, that automatically suspended the ordinance until the election.

In the end, only one council member was recalled.

Councilman Ted Lopez Jr., a supporter of the ban, was recalled on a 53-to-47-percent vote in his district.

"If someone had told me in September that (voting for the smoking ban) would result with me being removed from office, I still would have voted for it," Lopez said.

He said he may have been ousted because his district includes many bars, and some bar owners oppose the ban for fear it would hurt their business.

Councilman Mike Occhiato, who survived a recall with 56 percent of the vote, said he was surprised by the margin of victory for the ordinance.

"I knew there was a lot of support for it, but I wasn't sure," he said.

Some opponents of the ban characterized Pueblo as a blue-collar town whose working men and women wouldn't give up their right to light up at a neighborhood tavern. Supporters of the ban said the outcome proves them wrong.

"Pueblo's about more than that," Chris Nicoll said. "It really shows what a progressive community Pueblo really is."

The ban will officially be back on the books as early as this Friday.