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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Economy</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/9.aspx</link><description>Regulation, Labor, Professions, Energy, Communications, Business Subsidies</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 (Debug Build: 30417.1769)</generator><item><title>Re: 2011 House Bill 4127 (Create smoking ban exceptions )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/282043.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:30:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:282043</guid><dc:creator>Glasher</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/282043.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=9&amp;PostID=282043</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;div class="commentContent"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;nbsp;need to require smokers to wear an armband with a picture of a cigarette on it, that way we&amp;nbsp;will know who they are and able to keep a better eye on them. After all, it is &amp;#39;them&amp;#39; isn&amp;#39;t it?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2011 House Bill 4127 (Create smoking ban exceptions )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281899.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:53:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:281899</guid><dc:creator>teller1</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281899.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=9&amp;PostID=281899</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;My widowed friend w/ 4 kids worked in the neighborhood bar, near her home.&amp;nbsp; She now has a multitude of second hand smoke exposure illnesses, her non-smoking son died of cancer recently, young, he sat in the bar after school waiting for his mother,who never picked up a cigarette for herself. Less than 20% of the population smokes, why do the 80% have to be exposed to the thousands of chemicals coming out of the end of a lit cigarette? They can haul both of their &amp;#39;butts&amp;#39; outside!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2011 House Bill 4127 (Create smoking ban exceptions )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281898.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:45:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:281898</guid><dc:creator>teller1</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281898.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=9&amp;PostID=281898</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Listen here!&amp;nbsp; The owners complaining about the smoking ban must serve watered down drinks or have some other issues because since the smoking ban every bar/restaurant I&amp;#39;ve been in is busy.&amp;nbsp; I have talked to servers who themselves are smokers they love it. There is a national movement to make Casinos smoke free. As far as smoking areas this is the same as a &amp;#39;peeing&amp;#39; section in the pool. The thousands of cancer, heart/vasular, lung disease, asthma&amp;nbsp;causing chemicals that pump out of the end of cigarettes should not be forced into or on the bodies of none smokers. I smell the big money tobacco lobbyists here. And wait didn&amp;#39;t I see the Macinaw Center at the top of a page here, the group who would like to see our public schools eliminated and on and on ad nauseum who recieve funds from the K$$h brothers. VOTE McBroom OUT!&amp;nbsp; And the two who wrote the bills watering down the smokefree laws. We need jobs, why is he/they wasting precious time on this!!!???&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2011 House Bill 4127 (Create smoking ban exceptions )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/279596.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:45:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:279596</guid><dc:creator>Cindet30</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/279596.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=9&amp;PostID=279596</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Employees have the right of choice just like patrons.&amp;nbsp; If the environment is not suitable, they can choose to work elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2011 House Bill 4127 (Create smoking ban exceptions )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/279594.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:14:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:279594</guid><dc:creator>bapossum</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/279594.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=9&amp;PostID=279594</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;The smoking ban was instituted to protect employees.&amp;nbsp; How do you carve out exceptions that don&amp;#39;t require employees to enter these &amp;quot;smoking rooms&amp;quot;?&amp;nbsp; And how do you prevent smoke from seeping into other areas of the building?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>2011 House Bill 4127 (Create smoking ban exceptions )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/279593.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:279593</guid><dc:creator>Votes Admin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/279593.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=9&amp;PostID=279593</wfw:commentRss><description>Introduced in the House on January 20, 2011&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.michiganvotes.org/2011-HB-4127'&gt;Click here to view bill details.&lt;/a&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>