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Bill: Let The People Smoke
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertad y Justicia
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 2176
Description[?]:
| A bill that shifts responsibility from the government to the individual. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in all places of employment.
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, but is illegal in government-owned buildings.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:12:41, January 26, 2006 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Let The People Smoke |
| Message | I fail to see why workers in a bar, probably the focus of such legislation, should be subjected to second hand drug abuse. You wouldn't allow someone to leave a syringe lying around, so why let someone smoke indoors where they could do just as much harm? The citizen's right to not have cancer is more important than another citizen's right to abuse themselves or control their property. |
| Date | 01:13:06, January 26, 2006 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Let The People Smoke |
| Message | OOC: Good to see you proposing though Lib Jus. |
| Date | 16:51:49, January 26, 2006 CET | From | Libertad y Justicia | To | Debating the Let The People Smoke |
| Message | The ultimate rights, as defined by our intellectual forefathers, are, "Life, Liberty, and Property". Without private property, and without the means to do as you wish on your own property, you cannot have Liberty or Life. If the person, be they a casual customer or bar worker, wishes to subject themselves to second hand smoke, then that is their problem. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 89 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 249 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 23 |
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