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with” these days in the legislature, particularly with bills in both the House and Senate that would require no-smoking areas in public places with such places defined as “an enclosed indoor area used by the general public.”
The fate of the measures, called The Clean Indoor Air Act, is still uncertain, but one has passed the Senate and both are generating a heavy amount of public support.
State Sen. Thdmas J. Michie, DCharlottesville, who introduced one measure, argued it wasn’t designed to stop anyone from smoking but to protect non-smokers from the unhealthy effects of breathing smoke.
Noting conclusive medical evidence that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, heart disease and other ailments, Sen. Michie said no-one should have a right to inflict on others substances “that are killers.”
But one Richmond newspaper, echoing the words of the tobacco industry, has decried the bills as big brotherism. Said an editorial, “Make no mistake. This draconian legislation can only have one ultimate purpose, the destruction of an indus
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