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verses what they appear to agree to,” Dr. Miller said. “The Tobacco Institute would bar physicians or other health care providers from making their office waiting rooms smoke-free. Hospitals that are smoke-free would be required to Hav^smoking areas. They would ban a smoke-free workplace if even one person says no,” he said. “The proposal would prevent any community from passing ordinances to restrict or prohibit smoking. It repeals all existing ordinances which require no smoking sections in restaurants,” Dr. Miller said.
Dr. Walter Lawrence Jr. of the American Cancer Society characterized the Tobacco Lobby proposal as “clearly out of touch with what the majority of voting-age Virginians want” for regulation of second-hand smoke.
Dr. Lawrence cited a public opinion poll conducted for the Tri-Agencies in which two-thirds of votingage Virginians favored a state law restricting or prohibiting smoking in public places. In addition, he referred to a survey of Richmond area residents for the Richmond News Leader last year, indicating 72 percent of respondents wanted a state law requiring smoking and nonsmoking areas.
Clean indoor air measures failed in the 1989 General Assembly session, but Dr. Lawrence said he is confident state lawmakers will represent constituents this year despite expensive and extensive lobbying by the Tobacco Institute for the 1990 session.
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