From: Joe@smokefree.org
Date: Thu, 01/15/04
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Georgia to Introduce Statewide Smokefree Workplace Bill
Bid to join CA, DE, NY, CT, ME, and MA as smokefree workplace state
Parts excerpted from The Associated Press - MARIETTA, Ga., 1/13/04
Georgia state senator Don Thomas will introduce legislation within the next two
weeks that would provide all Georgia workers with a smokefree workplace,
including bar and restaurant workers.
If successful, Georgia would join California, Delaware, New York, Connecticut,
Maine, and Massachussets as a smokefree workplace state. Hundreds of cities
have also passed smokefree workplace legislation.
"This is not an effort to make people quit smoking," Thomas, a family doctor,
told the Marietta Daily Journal. "It's to make it so their smoke doesn't hurt
others."
Andy Lord, director of Georgia Tobacco Initiatives for the American Cancer
Society, said that several Georgia jurisdictions have already passed smokefree
workplace laws, including Valdosta, Bainbridge, Statesboro, Gwinnett County and
DeKalb County.
We have tremendous momentum, and we want there to be a statewide law so we dont
have to continue fighting these little battles, Lord said.
Georgia residents can send a letter of support at www.smokefree.net/GA
Non-Georgia residents, go to www.smokefree.net/alerts.php
Joseph W. Cherner
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
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