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Bill: Smoking Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Monarchist 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: August 2194
Description[?]:
| We hereby propose the striking down of all legislation that prohibits or bars in any form, manner, or shape the consumption of traditional tobacco cigarettes. We argue that to place restrictions on smoking is to attempt to control the relative health of the people of Aloria; and we feel strongly that domestic issues belong to no government. Scientific documentation of the matter is shaky; it is impossible to prove that secondhand smoke is as dangerous as the alarmists among us might argue. We support fully the designation of non-smoking areas in restaurants and bars; and support the right for private individuals and companies to restrict smoking on or within their own property; but that is not a decision for the government to make. |
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 outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in places of employment, with the exception of places that primarily serve liquor.
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 | 05:49:07, March 02, 2006 CET | From | Capitalism Now! Party | To | Debating the Smoking Reform Bill |
| Message | No. This goes too far, we believe this is so important that it must be left to the local goverments. |
| Date | 14:20:04, March 02, 2006 CET | From |  Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Smoking Reform Bill |
| Message | We agree with this legislation. Freedom to the people! |
| Date | 18:27:49, March 02, 2006 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Smoking Reform Bill |
| Message | We agree with CNP. Some things are best left to the locals. |
| Date | 21:07:20, March 02, 2006 CET | From | Social Reform Party | To | Debating the Smoking Reform Bill |
| Message | We feel an controversial issue like this should be left to the local governments. |
| Date | 01:47:02, March 03, 2006 CET | From | Monarchist Party | To | Debating the Smoking Reform Bill |
| Message | And it is our opinion that the local governments, unless unified and centralized through policy, will suffer from a certain lack of coherency and union. |
| Date | 02:05:21, March 03, 2006 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Smoking Reform Bill |
| Message | We are a confederacy. Perhaps you don't fit in a nation where federalism is vital. |
| Date | 02:08:58, March 03, 2006 CET | From | Monarchist Party | To | Debating the Smoking Reform Bill |
| Message | I am sure in the upcoming elections we will see the veracity of our beliefs in the eyes of the people. |
| Date | 12:59:59, March 03, 2006 CET | From | Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Smoking Reform Bill |
| Message | There is a place for centralisation in Aloria. We've been here for years! Stay as long as you want MP! |
| Date | 19:18:29, March 03, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Liberal Party | To | Debating the Smoking Reform Bill |
| Message | SMoking kills people around smokers too. What about them? Opposed to this. |
| Date | 04:59:27, March 04, 2006 CET | From | Monarchist Party | To | Debating the Smoking Reform Bill |
| Message | We of the Monarchist Party challenge the DLP to prove it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 109 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 491 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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