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Subject: Re: Smoking . . . (Slow Motion Suicide) - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 6-Jun-83 18:35:35 EDT
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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