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| Posted by Nick B on 2009-07-13 21:59:12 |
| The Bavarian legislature is supposed to vote this week on the changes. The ruling coalition might not be able to push it through as easily as they've promised the tobacco lobbyists and smoking ban opponents though, according to yesterday's paper: A few coalition legislators are not going to vote for it. How many, though, is not clear, and there's little doubt that it will pass anyway. The one guy quoted in the paper wants to close the Raucherclub loophole in the law too. And there may well be a voter's ballot initiative (that's what we called it in Oregon anyway) on the issue in the fall, as the smoke-free lobby have gathered more than enough signatures to clear the firts hurdle in such an endeavour. |