Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!wjh12!n44a!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Smoking . . . (Slow Motion Suicide) - (nf) Message-ID: <334@ima.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jun-83 18:35:35 EDT Article-I.D.: ima.334 Posted: Mon Jun 6 18:35:35 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 03:29:37 EDT Lines: 16 #R:stolaf:-101300:ima:14600004:000:647 ima!johnl Jun 6 10:01:00 1983 Minnesota isn't alone in requiring no-smoking sections in restaurants; the same has been true in Connecticut for quite a while. A similar local ordinance here in Cambridge MA lost when the tobacco lobby, which is extraordinarily well organized, packed the city council meeting with vocal opponent ("too expensive to enforce," "infringes our rights," etc.) Jeez. Speaking of Connecticut, tobacco has been grown there for centuries. It's primarily high-grade stuff, if you can characterize any kind of tobacco as high-grade, which is used for expensive cigar wrappers. They grow some over the line in Massachusetts, too. John Levine, ima!johnl