It seems as if legislators here in VA didn’t want to pass the smoking ban bill from Kaine and it got voted down immediately. VA loves to smoke. Let’s face reality. This state lives on the cash cow of killing people. Time to go get a smoking related disease so that health insurance skyrockets, down a flight by lighting up, and get some kids addicted to cigs.
This state is so backwards. Twenty two others have bans. VA has almost migrated in to the bottom half of healthy states. Lower than Mississippi. We love sickness and death. We also love to fry people in the chair (only Texas beats us). Will we try to fry the woman that left her baby in a car all afternoon (on a day that got up to 67 degrees it died of hyperthemia - heat stroke)? Did she go out for a smoke?
OK..I’m enjoying my cig while reading about the shooting that took place last night. C-Ville is just like Iraq…a daily shooting and a daily bombing. How did they manage to get the gunshots off while smoking?
One of the most controversial changes Kaine made was his proposed smoking ban in restaurants and bars.
“I support the ban on smoking in restaurants, but I was surprised that he took a bill that didn’t look like that and turned it into a bill that looks like that,â€? said Delegate David Toscano, D-57th District.
On Wednesday, the bill was voted down in both chambers. The original bill now goes back to the governor’s desk, and he has made it known that he will veto it. There is no chance for legislators to override that veto.
“It was set up to go through the session without amendments so that the governor could put a smoking repeal or smoking ban in the restaurants on,� said Senator Creigh Deeds, D-25th District.
At least by vetoing the original bill the restaurants won’t be getting rid of the no smoking sections. I’m sure the legislators will try to institute a policy where everyone MUST smoke this year. It is called education round here, ya’all.
