A complete ban on smoking in public places in Michigan may be rapidly approaching. Apparently, the House version which had exempted bingos and casinos may be off the table as Detroit area Democrats may be willing to go against Detroit casino interests.
From our sources:
"Talk at the Capitol this morning is that House Democrats may force a vote of an outright ban on smoking in all public buildings in Michigan today or tomorrow.
Apparently, the Detroit Democrats who have been re-elected in the August primary and face little general election opposition from Republicans in the heavily Democratic Detroit and are now willing to go against the Casinos interests in Detroit and vote for an outright ban on all smoking as the Senate did in SB-213.
The swing of the Detroit Democarats makes it now possible to narrowly pass a total ban. That bill now sits in the House and could be discharged from committee and put before the House for a vote at anytime."
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Exemptions are tried just to get a foot in the door to "feel the water" for gullible lawmakers. According the the book "Fundamentals of Smoke free Workplace Laws" published by the tax exempt charities that sponsor the ban through funding by drug companies making smoking cessation products, page 7 through 10 explains that they can allow no exemptions. If allowing exemptions is the only way to get a ban passed, on the last page, they instruct their followers to keep returning to lobby for exemptions to be removed one at a time for several years until all freedoms are finally gone. Here is the link. It's LOTS of reading. http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/CIA_Fundamentals.pdf
Thanks for the information.
I don't doubt that any exemptions to the smoking ban would be attacked at every opportunity.
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