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To: Mr Ramsbotham
"A judge upheld the order in January, citing medical evidence of the effects of secondhand smoke on children."

So how long will it be before this court order morphs into a law? How long before Joe Sixpack takes a break from his job at the city museum and steps out front to smoke a cigarette when a bus full of school children on a field trip pulls up and unloads? What happens next? A local police officer on foot patrol sees that the children's lives are now in peril because of this, this..., this SMOKER! The LEO springs into action and slams the smoking perp to the pavement where he is read his rights and dragged off to the pokey.

Could it happen? One day perhaps?

20 posted on 08/13/2004 5:44:55 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

All worthy questions that the legislative branch of government should consider. But a court order is a court order. We can't selectively decide which ones to flout and which ones to honor ... unless we're ready to abide the consequences.


38 posted on 08/13/2004 6:14:23 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("This house is sho' gone crazy!")
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