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Bill: Smoking Ban Bill of 2721
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Party - Republican Democrats
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2722
Description[?]:
| This bill aims to reduce the health hazard of passive smoking throughout the nation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking regulations are to be determined by local governments.
Current: Smoking is legal everywhere, at the discretion of the property owner, and is legal in government-owned buildings.
Proposed: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in all places of employment.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:56:12, March 06, 2009 CET | From | Traditionalist Party | To | Debating the Smoking Ban Bill of 2721 |
| Message | Ridiculous, we should be able to smoke our briar pipes and cigarellos where ever we damn well please. We must vote against on this occassion. |
| Date | 22:06:22, March 06, 2009 CET | From | People's Party - Republican Democrats | To | Debating the Smoking Ban Bill of 2721 |
| Message | We suppose that we really cannot expect a reasonable attitude from the Traditionalist Party. |
| Date | 01:36:00, March 07, 2009 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Smoking Ban Bill of 2721 |
| Message | We are for banning smoking in public places, but giving this power to local authorities gives certain peoples the chance to live under the circumstances they prefer. |
| Date | 07:22:39, March 07, 2009 CET | From | People's Party - Republican Democrats | To | Debating the Smoking Ban Bill of 2721 |
| Message | Giving such powers to local authorities means telling people who have the bad luck to be living in the area of a local authority which refuses to regulate smoking in a sensible way that they have to move elsewhere if they do not want to put up with being subjected to the health hazard of passive smoking at their place of employment everyday. |
| Date | 17:34:25, March 07, 2009 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Smoking Ban Bill of 2721 |
| Message | Bad luck? Since when luck matters in a democracy? |
| Date | 19:11:06, March 07, 2009 CET | From | People's Party - Republican Democrats | To | Debating the Smoking Ban Bill of 2721 |
| Message | Luck matters in this case when you have a bad luck to reside in an area where the local government majority consists of irresponsible smokers who don't mind at all that they are seriously compromising the health of the non-smokers in places of employment. |
| Date | 01:36:08, March 08, 2009 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Smoking Ban Bill of 2721 |
| Message | Then campaign, protest, vote for another party that respects third-hand smokers. |
| Date | 08:47:04, March 08, 2009 CET | From | People's Party - Republican Democrats | To | Debating the Smoking Ban Bill of 2721 |
| Message | Sometimes, in a democracy, you remain in permanent minority, and no amount of campaigning can change that ... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 352 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 398 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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