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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Banning Smoking - A New WA state law (Hooray!!)
Message-ID: <294@persci.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 11:23:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: persci.294
Posted: Sat Jul 27 11:23:44 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jul-85 07:07:34 EDT
Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan)
Organization: Personal Scientific, Woodinville WA
Lines: 44
Summary: If God had intended Man to smoke, He would have set him on fire!

From this morning's Seattle Times (7/27/85 Saturday):
"STRICTER BAN TO HIT SMOKERS AT MIDNIGHT

Come midnight, cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoker -probably feeling picked on
already- may notice the walls closing in even more when a new state law which
bans smoking in most public places goes into effect.

[...] the State Clean Air Act will prohibit smokers from puffing away as they
push their carts down the grocery aisle, stand in line at the bank and shop for
clothes at a department store.

The Legislature has decreed as strictly off-limits to smoking those places plus
all museums, elevators, buses, classrooms, sites of public meetings and the
reception areas and waiting rooms of state and local government buildings, among
other areas. 

In these instances, owners will not have the option to set aside smoking areas.

[...] (the measure) carries a stiff penalty. Under the state law, scofflaw
smokers can be fined $100. So can stores and businesses that fail to post no-
smoking signs.

[...]

The state law makes it illegal to smoke as you stroll from one store to another
in an enclosed shopping mall, although designated smoking areas inside the mall
can be set aside. Other places where smoking areas can be designated include
hallways of nursing homes and lobbies of concert halls, theaters, auditoriums,
exhibition halls and indoor sports areas if the designated areas are in a 
physically separate spot.

Even when hailing a taxicab a smoker should look for a "smoking allowed" sign.
Otherwise smoking in the taxi is taboo.

The new law permits relatively few owners of public places the discretion of
opening up their businesses to smoking in their entirety - places such as
tobacco shops, bars, taverns, bowling alleys and restaurants.

[...]"
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William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill