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  • (Heads Up VA Business Owners) Virginia Senate passes indoor smoking ban

    02/15/2006 6:37:23 AM PST · by SheLion · 214 replies · 1,799+ views
    United Pro Smoker's Newsletter ^ | Feb. 14, 2006 | Rosalind S. Helderman
    RICHMOND, Va. - The Virginia Senate voted Monday to ban smoking in restaurants and virtually all other public places, an extraordinary sign of cultural change in a state that is home to the worldwide headquarters of Philip Morris and whose agricultural economy has been rooted in tobacco farming for almost 400 years. The bill is unlikely to survive review in the House of Delegates. Yet its passage on the floor of the Senate -- where smoking has never been formally banned and lawmakers lit up openly even until the late 1990s -- signaled mounting popular support for smoking restrictions....