The Smoke-Free Movement
New Law Under Fire From Senate - Take Action!
URGENT!!!! IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED TO PROTECT SMOKE-FREE ILLINOIS LAW
Just last week, we mobilized you to help spread the word that Illinois’ new, life-saving Smoke Free Illinois must not be tampered with in the final hours of the Illinois legislative session. Late last evening, this threat became more dangerous than ever before, and we need your URGENT help once again. Please take immediate action this morning.
The ink from the Governor's signature on SB 500 - The Smoke-free Illinois Act -- is still drying and yet the Casino Industry lobby and some Senators are once again maneuvering to pass an exemption for casinos for 5 years. Only this time, they are trying to combine this measure with other, crucial, budget-related related votes.
The exemption comes in the form of Senate Floor Amendment #2 to HB 2035. The American Cancer Society is strongly opposed to this amendment and is working hard to defeat it in the Illinois Senate. The amendment passed out of the Senate Executive Committee on a vote of 7-1 against our opposition and is now on the Senate Floor ready for consideration. It is essential that we prevent this amendment from being adopted.
We testified in Committee and maintain that all workers -- including the over 9,000 Illinois casino workers -- deserve protection from the 69 carcinogens contained in secondhand smoke. As you know, hospitality and gaming industry workers have a 20-30 percent higher risk of a diagnosis of cancer because of their intense exposure to secondhand smoke. Furthermore, this constituency is oftentimes least likely to enjoy health insurance coverage.
Please help us kill this hostile amendment to The Smoke-free Illinois Act and protect all workers from the dangers of secondhand smoke. Call and email your Senator's Springfield Office this morning and ask them to, "Please vote NO on the casino exemption to The Smoke-Free Illinois Act. All workers deserve to be protected from the 69 cancer-causing toxins in secondhand smoke."
To email your legislator and find your Senator's Springfield Office phone number go to this link http://www.ilga.gov/senate/. Or find out who your senator is go to http://www.acscan.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FindARep.
Just last week, we mobilized you to help spread the word that Illinois’ new, life-saving Smoke Free Illinois must not be tampered with in the final hours of the Illinois legislative session. Late last evening, this threat became more dangerous than ever before, and we need your URGENT help once again. Please take immediate action this morning.
The ink from the Governor's signature on SB 500 - The Smoke-free Illinois Act -- is still drying and yet the Casino Industry lobby and some Senators are once again maneuvering to pass an exemption for casinos for 5 years. Only this time, they are trying to combine this measure with other, crucial, budget-related related votes.
The exemption comes in the form of Senate Floor Amendment #2 to HB 2035. The American Cancer Society is strongly opposed to this amendment and is working hard to defeat it in the Illinois Senate. The amendment passed out of the Senate Executive Committee on a vote of 7-1 against our opposition and is now on the Senate Floor ready for consideration. It is essential that we prevent this amendment from being adopted.
We testified in Committee and maintain that all workers -- including the over 9,000 Illinois casino workers -- deserve protection from the 69 carcinogens contained in secondhand smoke. As you know, hospitality and gaming industry workers have a 20-30 percent higher risk of a diagnosis of cancer because of their intense exposure to secondhand smoke. Furthermore, this constituency is oftentimes least likely to enjoy health insurance coverage.
Please help us kill this hostile amendment to The Smoke-free Illinois Act and protect all workers from the dangers of secondhand smoke. Call and email your Senator's Springfield Office this morning and ask them to, "Please vote NO on the casino exemption to The Smoke-Free Illinois Act. All workers deserve to be protected from the 69 cancer-causing toxins in secondhand smoke."
To email your legislator and find your Senator's Springfield Office phone number go to this link http://www.ilga.gov/senate/. Or find out who your senator is go to http://www.acscan.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FindARep.
I hope, you Senators, are not planning on changes the law about not smoking in building, boats, and restaurants. Today, we eat at a restaurant, that was no smoking, it was nice to come home with out a headache and not feeling sick. I wishes yours would think about the many people that smoking hurts. PLEASE, PLEASE, KEEP THE LAW OF NO SMOKING IN BUILDING, BOATS, AND RESTURANT. So people like me can go out, without getting sick. Please remember US. Keep January 1st. 2008 as NO SMOKING We don`t have chose of not getting sick, when they are smoking around us. Thank-you for thinking of, so many of us, Keep January 1,2008 SMOKE FREE. Jeanette A. Sasse, Shobonier,Il 62885. or grannysasse4385@yahoo.com.THANKS.
Posted by
Jeanette Sasse |
2:55 PM
This law is another example of the Orwellian type of control that liberals are well known for. You cannot have it both ways. Everyone whines and complains about second hand smoke, and so on and so forth, but yet I don't hear you liberals complain about all of the tax revenue that go into the state treasury every year from the taxes upon tobacco and related tobacco products. I am sick and tired of the overreaching arm of government trying to tell me how to live my life. I have no doubt that I will more than likely drop dead before someone who does not smoke, but it is my life to live!
Before you are so quick to curse my opinion, let me point this out. Yes there are places that should not have smoking allowed. Banning smoking everywhere is not the answer. This law accomplishes absolutely nothing except the earning of my contempt.
Posted by
Neil |
6:38 PM