Comments on: Is it worth it? http://banthebanwisconsin.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/is-it-worth-it/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:37:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ryan http://banthebanwisconsin.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/is-it-worth-it/#comment-967 Ryan Thu, 01 May 2008 19:38:47 +0000 http://banthebanwisconsin.wordpress.com/?p=420#comment-967 It's an interesting twist and one that I don't think that they anticipated. Not that I'm at all bummed out. It actually pleases me immensely to see them fail like this. It’s an interesting twist and one that I don’t think that they anticipated. Not that I’m at all bummed out. It actually pleases me immensely to see them fail like this.

]]> By: Marshall Keith http://banthebanwisconsin.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/is-it-worth-it/#comment-959 Marshall Keith Thu, 01 May 2008 03:26:43 +0000 http://banthebanwisconsin.wordpress.com/?p=420#comment-959 The bill would give the remaining $40 million in the foundation's coffers to the Department of Health to fulfill the foundation's current contractual obligations. After that, the department would decide whether to use what remains to continue the foundation's anti-smoking efforts. Sen. Bill Seitz (R., Cincinnati), author of a similar Senate bill, said the action is a response to a feeling among some that the foundation has become "a rogue agency." "It's not the remedy I would have proposed," he said as he stood outside a Statehouse entrance smoking a cigarette. "I would have said we should vote to eliminate the statewide smoking ban. That's the nuclear option." http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/NEWS24/804300428/-1/NEWS The bill would give the remaining $40 million in the foundation’s coffers to the Department of Health to fulfill the foundation’s current contractual obligations. After that, the department would decide whether to use what remains to continue the foundation’s anti-smoking efforts.

Sen. Bill Seitz (R., Cincinnati), author of a similar Senate bill, said the action is a response to a feeling among some that the foundation has become “a rogue agency.”

“It’s not the remedy I would have proposed,” he said as he stood outside a Statehouse entrance smoking a cigarette. “I would have said we should vote to eliminate the statewide smoking ban. That’s the nuclear option.”
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/NEWS24/804300428/-1/NEWS

]]> By: Marshall Keith http://banthebanwisconsin.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/is-it-worth-it/#comment-953 Marshall Keith Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:26:07 +0000 http://banthebanwisconsin.wordpress.com/?p=420#comment-953 This could be the end for Ohio's leading anti-tobacco organization. After weeks of legal and political wrangling between legislative leaders and the Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation, lawmakers introduced a measure Tuesday to make the foundation disappear. http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=410032&Category=13&subCategoryID= This could be the end for Ohio’s leading anti-tobacco organization.

After weeks of legal and political wrangling between legislative leaders and the Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation, lawmakers introduced a measure Tuesday to make the foundation disappear.
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=410032&Category=13&subCategoryID=

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