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News | Texas

Statewide smoking ban looms if bill passes

by Thom White

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Is indoor smoking too dangerous for workers?

ashtray-760830 AUSTIN -- State Rep. Myra Crownover of Denton, and state Sen. Rodney Ellis of Houston, are sponsoring bills in each chamber of the Texas legislature that would ban indoor cigarette smoking in any business in the state, including restaurants and bars.

This new intrusion into property and business owners’ rights (business owners will no longer be able to decide whether to allow their patrons to smoke) is being justified as a health measure to protect workers from dangerous second-hand smoke.

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