Cole County expands smoking ban

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Cole County Commission has adopted an ordinance to ban smoking on county property.

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The ordinance adopted Monday bans smoking in all county-owned or leased buildings.

This came about after concerns were received last month about smoking near the handicap access to the courthouse elevator.

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clingingredneck 2 years, 2 months ago

So I guess that means you can't smoke on the sidewalks or in the parks either. What about the county roadways? We can't smoke in our cars either? Way to go guys. You just ran more business and people out of Cole County. Just what we needed. Here's an idea, why don't you all go to California and be with your Commie Socialist friends? They love to take away people's rights and the folks out there seem to enjoy being herded like sheep.

wcywing 2 years, 2 months ago

cole county wants to be a nanny state.

JCLifer 2 years, 2 months ago

No smoking in county vehicles?

No smoking in the county jail?

I'll believe it when I see it1

CarolT 2 years, 2 months ago

The anti-smokers commit flagrant scientific fraud by ignoring more than 50 studies which show that human papillomaviruses cause at least 1/4 of non-small cell lung cancers. Smokers and passive smokers are more likely to have been exposed to this virus for socioeconomic reasons. And the anti-smokers' studies are all based on lifestyle questionnaires, so they're cynically DESIGNED to blame tobacco for all those extra lung cancers that are really caused by HPV. And they commit the same type of fraud with every disease they blame on tobacco.

smokershistory.com/hpvlungc.htm smokershistory.com/SGHDlies.html

And, all their so-called "independent" reports were ring-led by the same guy, Jonathan M. Samet, including the Surgeon General Reports, the EPA report, the IARC report, and the ASHRAE report, and he's now the chairman of the FDA Committee on Tobacco. He and his politically privileged clique exclude all the REAL scientists from their echo chamber. That's how they make their reports "unanimous!"

smokershistory.com/SGlies.html

For the government to commit fraud to deprive us of our liberties is automatically a violation of our Constitutional rights to the equal protection of the laws, just as much as if it purposely threw innocent people in prison. And for the government to spread lies about phony smoking dangers is terrorism, no different from calling in phony bomb threats.

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