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Statewide Smoking Ban? Save Email Print
Posted: 8:36 PM Mar 4, 2008
Last Updated: 8:36 PM Mar 4, 2008

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Thousands of people gathered in Madison to hear seven time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong speak about Wisconsin’s smoking ban at a rally Tuesday.

An assembly committee voted 6-3 to send a proposed smoking ban to the full assembly. A committee chairman says there's no guarantee the full assembly will take up the bill to ban smoking in all bars, restaurants and work places starting in 2009.

At the rally Armstrong said there is a moral obligation to prevent nonsmokers from being forced to breathe in second hand smoke while at work.

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Posted by: Ben Gilbert Location: Eau Claire on Mar 11, 2008 at 12:42 AM
The government is not set up to function as our nanny. This much government interference in business scares me and is not in the Wisconsin spirit. Will we ban over weight people from fast food restaurants next? More people should open no smoking bars, then it is fair to everyone.

Posted by: me on Mar 4, 2008 at 09:37 PM
So yet another law to protect us from ourselves. Did anyone ever think if you dont like smoke don't go to those establishments that allow it.

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