A South Dakota state court will soon decide if a referendum has enough valid signatures. Proponents of the referendum submitted 25,400 signatures to meet a legal requirement of 16,776. However, approximately 2,000 signatures were notarized by notaries who wrote down an incorrect date for when their seal expires. If those signatures are considered invalid, the referendum will fail to qualify.
The purpose of the referendum is to ask for a popular vote on a ban on smoking in bars and casinos. The case is Trucano v Nelson, 32-civ 09-306, pending in the 6th district Circuit Court.
Welcome to prohibition,as our great gradfathers fought for a place to drink a beer after work without arrest.We smokers now find ourselves in their shoes. The lies and deciet being perpetrated upon us smokers is tatamount to medical fraud and constitutional treason. The damage to business worldwide from smoking prohibition is in the tens of billions of dollars and the lost liberty of the worlds people. In california alone ten years of prohibition have cost the state easily billions in lost revenues from bootleg cigarette sales and lost sales taxes and the closures of 100s of venues……In ohio the smoking prohibition has cost the stae nearly all of its bingos and charitable venues,local volunteer fire depts have been shutdown without the charitable moneys from bingos and other venues. BARS RESTARAUNTS HAVE SHUTDOWN acros ohio and the numbers rise daily…..Many veterans halls have opted to go as smoke easys just to get their customer base back up.
This has happened in all areas of america where bans have been instituted…In Great britain pubs/bars are closing at an average of 50 per week as ban damage decimates their business…If your a smoker you know full well, what happens…..you simply stay home or find a smoke easy to go to for fun……..The poorest of our lot have to decide whether they can buy food for themselves or buy smokes since schip taxes rose 2400% by the democrats………Thank god for bootleggers for they offer the poor at least a sanctuary away from the prohibitionists long arm……..but with these things comes crime,murder and fights over territory by gangsters and thugs…….People are being killed who try and enforce these draconian prohibitions…….many have died because of the bans being forced to go into inclimate weather and catch pnemonia and iother ailments such as freezing to death as a man in a retirement home did in canada just last year.Dont expect to hear any truth from the health depts.
Who is behind the bans/prohibition its the robert wood johnsons foundation out of new jersey. They are in effect johnson and johnson big pharma makers of you guessed it……..smoking cessation products…Then they have the american cancer society hired out as lobbyists to push these bans off on cities towns and states..their shakedown approach would marvel even Jessie jackson and his rainbow push blackmale artists…..the states when they put a ban in effect spend about 300 million dollars on smoking cessation products bought from…..johnson and johnson or phizer…..then the smokefree outfits get a portion of the state sales tax they raise up on tobacco to pay their staff and keep up the propaganda dept against us smokers rights…..their psuedo-science knows no end nor their ability to stack polling data in their favor,just like their so called scientific studies…….But like all prohibitions through out history of 400 plus years of tobacco they have all been repealed……….
When will it end,lets just say it all really began in novemeber 2006 and the bans came like a tsunami across the country…..and when a particular political green group loses political power…….you may well see the bans REPEALED at a lightening rate….
Turkey reports first ‘smoking-ban murder’ – paper
Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:05pm IST
Email | Print | Share| Single Page[-] Text [+] ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A restaurant owner in southwest Turkey was shot dead after he tried to prevent his customers from smoking to comply with a new law on the use of tobacco indoors, Hurriyet daily said on Thursday.
A fight broke out after Hidir Karayigit, 46, ordered a group of customers to extinguish their cigarettes when they began smoking at his “meyhane,” a traditional restaurant that serves alcohol, in the town of Saruhanli, Hurriyet said.
One of the customers shot Karayigit four times after he took away the group’s cigarettes, said witness Hamza Havutcu, Karayigit’s business partner who was also shot and wounded.