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2008 Virginia
legislative
efforts, and the fallout from that
onto the Norfolk Virginia City Council which has gone from
supporting smoking bans in Norfolk restaurants (October, 2007) to
huge exceptions that only a tobacco executive could support. On the
evening of March 25, 2008, the Norfolk City Council voted to get rid
of the proposed smoking ban.
BUT, in April 2008, they will consider
revised plans to allow restaurants to allow smoking if they pay the
city $1,000 a year -- Legalized "Opium dens"? Does this open the
restaurants to even more liability from employee lawsuits?
2008
Legislation was
blocked by chief dictator Speaker of the House William Howell and
willing servant Chairwoman Terrie Suit and their six little
dictators in the subcommittee:
Thomas Gear, David Albo, Thomas Wright, John Cosgrove, Watkins
Abbitt, Danny Bowling.
For information on this, including
news coverage, please see
http://www.gasp.org/cleanairact.html and
http://www.gasp.org/Excerpts2008.html
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2008 Virginia
legislative
efforts, and the fallout from
that onto the
Norfolk Virginia City Council which has gone from supporting
smoking bans in Norfolk restaurants (October, 2007) to huge
exceptions that only a tobacco executive could support. On the
evening of March 25, 2008, the Norfolk City Council voted to get
rid of the proposed smoking ban.
BUT,
in April 2008, they will consider revised plans to allow
restaurants to allow smoking if they pay the city $1,000 a year
-- Legalized "Opium dens"? Does this open the restaurants to
even more liability from employee lawsuits? |
For more information visit
http://www.gasp.org. |
