Friday, April 13, 2007

Push State to Pass Smoking Ban

The State Senate has just passed a law to prohibit smoking in Illinois and now goes to the house for passage. Please call our representative Karen May and give her support in her efforts to pass this bill.
16 other states have passed a smoking ban and it is long past time for Illinois to pass this for the health and welfare of our citizens. This is a life or death situation for all of us that must still endure the second hand smoke at public and private institutions.
Smoking has been proven to be extremely harmful to anyone exposed to the smoke.
Stand up and demonstrate against this continued assault on the health of our communities and aggressively support this bill in Springfield.
Let us also look at our ordinances and see if we need to make them stronger to protect ourselves where loop holes might still exist.