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Title: Understanding the North Carolina Smoking Ban
Source: AFP/Google
URL Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/af ... M5g-duwUbV5glu3kB4N6bFpPjXQFHA
Published: May 19, 2009
Author: AFP
Post Date: 2009-05-19 19:16:14 by Deasy
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Keywords: ties, rights, kindred, redress
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Comments: 20

North Carolina is the house that tobacco built, and now its former sustenance is officially on the law books as being against the law to consume in public.

If you think about the implications of this they are sweeping. News reports indicate popular support for the ban. I believe it.

I include the article here, although you don't need to read it. What more do I need to say?
North Carolina smoking ban ends era in US tobacco heartland

2 hours ago

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AFP) — North Carolina's governor signed a statewide indoor smoking ban into law Tuesday, signaling the end of an era in the United States' leading tobacco-producing state.

"This is a historic day for North Carolina," Governor Bev Perdue said. "But more important than the history that we are making is the positive impact we are having on public health.

"By banning smoking in our restaurants and bars, we will greatly reduce the dangers of secondhand smoke and lower health care costs for families," Perdue said.

North Carolina joins more than 30 other US states that have similar laws. Virginia, another state with a centuries-old tobacco-growing tradition, adopted a ban in March.

The new law prohibits smoking in restaurants and bars, with the exception of private clubs and cigar bars.

The law, which takes effect in January, authorizes fines of up to 50 dollars for people who smoke after being asked to stop, and up to 200 dollars for managers of establishments who have twice been warned to enforce the law.

The law's supporters say it will protect people from the adverse health effects of second-hand smoke, which the US Surgeon General says causes the deaths of approximately 50,000 people a year in the United States.

Critics of the ban say it infringes on smokers' rights as well as the rights of property owners to set their own rules.

Scott Bissette, an international marketing specialist with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, said the law will hurt the state's tobacco farmers, who last year produced nearly 385 million pounds of tobacco worth more than 677 million dollars.

North Carolina tobacco is exported all over the world. "Any time you put restrictions on smoking, you're going to curtail consumption," Bissette said.


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Farmers talk over bales of tobacco before the start of the Wilson Tobacco Auction 2004 in Wilson, North Carolina

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
ushistory.org, Declaration of Independence. (1 image)

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#1. To: Deasy, christine, HOUNDDAWG, Cynicom (#0)

The law, which takes effect in January, authorizes fines of up to 50 dollars for people who smoke after being asked to stop, and up to 200 dollars for managers of establishments who have twice been warned to enforce the law.

Note how the dictators work: they enmesh hapless businesses into becoming part of 'law enforcement'.

bluegrass  posted on  2009-05-19   19:44:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: bluegrass (#1)

it's disgusting that privately owned bars and restaurants cannot establish their own rules.

christine  posted on  2009-05-19   19:55:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: christine (#2)

It's called vilification politics select a group and vilify them to the point that the large majority of a Christian nation will stand by and watch as 80 women and children are executed.....a extreme example however there are a group of people out there that would have no problem with the killing of a smoker's.

If I did not buy my cigarettes from the Indians in AZ I would be dealing with a $7.00 a day habit....it's getting to the point where smoking 20 joints a day would be cheaper and more acceptable

robnoel  posted on  2009-05-19   20:44:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: robnoel (#5)

it's getting to the point where smoking 20 joints a day would be cheaper and more acceptable.

And a lot more fun !

noone222  posted on  2009-05-20   3:12:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#17. To: noone222, robnoel (#15)

it's getting to the point where smoking 20 joints a day would be cheaper and more acceptable.

And a lot more fun !

Not to mention a great deal healthier.

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