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Austin smoking ordinance

Topic 9 · 4 responses · archived october 2000
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~terry seed
The Austin smoking ordinance is Gus Garcia's final stroke of genius for Austin. It would ban smoking from all restaurants totally. What a brou ha ha. The small business people are hot, spearheaded by Sam and Bob. And http://austinmayor.com has a special page devoted to the differing views at http://austinmayor.com/smoke You can learn a lot of the details there.
~terry #1
This is about choice and business owners right to choose what they do with their business. They can choose to have a smoking (under the current somewhat strict ordinance) or nonsmoking ordinance. Right now, we have a 4-3 vote for the ordinance. Going in to Thursdays vote. A bunch of folks are meeting at Councilman Darryl Slusher's office at 5:00 pm tonight at Colorado and 8th to express their views on this issue. Bob Cole, KVET morning talk show host, will be there.
~stacey #2
Hot topic in the Denver area as well... Boulder has sucessfully implemented a smoking ban in all facilities but things aren't going so well here...
~terry #3
They're backing down already on the Austin ban since Will Wynn got in to office. He's asked for a postponement so they can reconsider and possibly put a revote to the McCrackin Council.
~admin #4
Anyone know the status of this?
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