Missouri Smoking Ban Gets No Opposition During Hearing
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| The trouble with smoking? It makes not a sound. |
The fact that state senators held a hearing on the bill yesterday was news to me -- and to Hannegan. "I didn't know about the hearing, otherwise I would have gone," he laments.
The Columbia Missourian reports today the only person to criticize the bill was the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee who compared smoking to eating unhealthy food.
Sen. Matt Bartle, R-Jackson County, who chairs the committee, asked if eating french fries should also be banned because it negatively impacts taxpayers who have to pay for Medicaid costs related to obesity.Oh, and speaking of "banning other habits", Bartle is the state senator -- and Ass Clown -- who wants to ban all nudity at Missouri strip clubs.
"Because that's the slope were on," he said. Bartle said he finds smoking offensive and would support the bill but is concerned that a de facto ban on smoking might lead to banning other habits.
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