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Bill: Smoking Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Radical New Party
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: October 2167
Description[?]:
| Why should State owned buildings have to be special? What's so important that nobody can smoke in them? Are they exempt for some reason? They shouldn't be. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is legal everywhere, at the discretion of the property owner, but is illegal in government-owned buildings.
Current: Smoking is legal everywhere, at the discretion of the property owner. However, service/employer property owners that allow smoking must provide a separate non-smoking section.
Proposed: Smoking is legal everywhere, at the discretion of the property owner, and is legal in government-owned buildings.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:31:53, January 06, 2006 CET | From |  Liberty Party | To | Debating the Smoking Act |
| Message | My view is that the state has no jurisdiction to even consider criminalising smoking in private-owned places. However, when it comes to public-owned places, I suppose a majority decision is as good as any. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 143 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 195 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 127 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not approve a Cultural Protocol request within the first 48 hours of it being requested. This is in order to give other players a chance to query the proposed changes, if they wish to do so. Moderation may be approached for advice on a proposed change, but any advice proffered should always be understood under the provisio that no final decision will be made until at least 48 hours after the request has been formally submitted for approval. |
| Random quote: "Real politics is the possession and distribution of power." - Benjamin Disraeli |