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Thanks for adding the link for me!

I have started to do research for my website, www.noamendment6.com, and I have found nothing to indicate incidental exposure to ETS causes an increased risk of anything. I always thought ETS was pure poison. Now, I'm not so sure...

If it's as bad as they say it is, why don't they just make it illegal? Could there be some groups that want to keep it legal and tax the hell out of it? An interesting article on just where those tobacco settlement funds are going...

http://www.newsradio610.com/script/headline_newsmanager.php?id=33193&pagecontent=national1

And we all know, if smoking does go the way of the dodo bird, the legislators are sure to throw up their hands in relief and say, "Boy, I'm glad that's done. We won't be needing that tax revenue anymore!" No, they'll just find some other sin to tax...

I hope it won't pass. But even if it does, it has to pass by a substantial margin or the legislature will not give this law teeth. The enforcement of this ban will be covered in the next legislative session. If there is a slim margin of victory, I don't think the pols will be anxious to enforce it. And I don't think it's merely a smoking issue...business owners will also be affected. There may be more support out there than we know.

I will appear on an Orlando/Tampa talk radio show on Wed June 26 to talk about this issue. 1470AM in Tampa, 1190AM in Orlando, The Guetzloe Report, from 10a-11a.

I'm not entirely sure the "C" schools are much better. My son's middle school rated a C, and while we were flipping through a book for our daughter, "What every 5th Grader Should Know" (We're doing some home-schooling over the summer) my son revealed that he did not know Abraham Lincoln had been assasinated, nor when the Revolutionary War was fought. We are desperately trying to get him and our daughter into a private school...hopefully in a year from now, when he enters 9th grade.

That is two different things. The anti-smokers were unable to legislate the ban, so they are circumventing the legislature and getting the people to vote on this to amend the state Constitution. DCF has nothing to do with this.

Unfortunately, Floridians have no other ways to make laws than to amend the Constitution, which I think is a big mistake. It makes the Constitution unwieldy and open to any special interest group with an ax to grind.

I don't know who they are. I'm assuming they are a PAC. They have endorsements from a lot of medical fields, the American Cancer Society, etc.

I have e-mailed them asking how this ban will be enforced. On their website they claim it will be self-enforcing, since restaurants will no longer have to deal with the "complex" regulations dealing with smoking and non-smoking sections. I found this hard to believe, considering the FLRA is against it. I received a reply stating that if the ban is passed, legislation will be proposed to enforce the ban...more taxes!

The FL Restaurant Association is opposed to this ban.

It's child care for profit, so theoretically if you have kids and smoke but don't care for others for money, you are still allowed to do so.

My website is www.noamendment6.com. The other side, to be fair, is www.smokefreeforhealth.org

I do not smoke, but I am opposed to this ban. It would punish business owners as well as those people who are doing nothing illegal. I have created a website to bring attention to this issue, but I don't want to be accused of spamming. Is it okay to list the website? I'm not selling anything, this is a political issue.