Indiana senators are ready to begin tinkering with a proposal to ban smoking statewide in some private establishments.
The full Senate is scheduled to take up the ban Tuesday afternoon. A Senate panel approved the ban last week with exemptions
for the state's gambling industry, private clubs such as military veterans' lodges, and tobacco and cigar stores.
The measure would also give bars an 18-month reprieve from the ban.
Senators plan to spend the day voting on proposals to either remove some exemptions or add new ones to the bill.
Exemptions have historically been the stumbling block for the ban. Some supporters of the ban this year have held their breath
and voted for the measure they call "hypocritical." The authors of the ban have said it is the best they could do.
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Senate considers changes to state smoking-ban bill
Associated Press
February 28, 2012
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
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Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
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Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
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a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
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millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.
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Now: either you allow smoking, or you don't. Another case of backwards Indiana, "we have non-smoking...sort of"
Personally, I'd like the bars downtown to go with their pre-Super Bowl status. Then give all of the Big10 teams (the city assigns eateries as the home base for each school) which allow smoking & see how long (and how many) schools make a request for non-smoking restaurants. It's happened before.