The House gave final approval to a statewide smoking ban today and sent the bill to Gov. Bill Owens, who is expected to sign it. The measure would outlaw smoking in most public places except casinos, cigar bars and the smoking lounge at Denver International Airport. The House approved the measure 38-24. […] The Senate approved the plan Thursday.<\/p>\n
Colorado would be the 13th state to enact such a ban. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman signed that state’s anti-smoking legislation Thursday. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Huzzah.<\/p>\n
To be sure, this is one I feel philosphically dubious about. Ideally, this would be handled by the free market, and, given that cigarette smoking is not illegal, etc., etc., blah, blah, yadda, yadda.<\/p>\n
But. y’know what? I’ll be glad to be that much more removed from smoking. And I am not going to lose any sleep over this. At all. So there.<\/p>\n
(Casinos?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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