{"id":464,"date":"2011-03-09T12:30:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2011-03-09T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:30:56","slug":"federal-grant-money-to-be-used-to-lobby-for-tougher-st-louis-smoking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Federal grant money to be used to lobby for tougher St. Louis smoking ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is interesting, and I’ve never heard of anything quite like this before. Health officials in St. Louis County, Missouri, are using $2 million in federal stimulus dollars<\/a> to implement a public relations campaign to lobby the county council to impose a more strict smoking ban in the county.<\/p>\n

It’s a county agency contacting with a PR firm, using federal money, to lobby its own county council.<\/p>\n

That’s gotta drive libertarians insane. And it’s a lot of money — $2 million. I guess I wouldn’t find it so weird if it were a lot smaller dollar amount. What are they really going to spend $2 million on?<\/p>\n

St. Louis County currently has a restaurant smoking ban, with exemptions for standalone bars and casinos. The county health agency will lobby for a comprehensive ban.<\/p>\n

I see my old friend Bill Hannegan quoted in this story. He is a noted (and very busy) activist from the St. Louis area against smoking bans — one of the sane ones, though I rarely come remotely close to agreeing with him. I grudgingly have to agree with him on this one, though, this is really kind of an odd story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is interesting, and I’ve never heard of anything quite like this before. Health officials in St. Louis County, Missouri, are using $2 million in federal stimulus dollars to implement a public relations campaign to lobby the county council to impose a more strict smoking ban in the county. It’s a county agency contacting with … Continue reading Federal grant money to be used to lobby for tougher St. Louis smoking ban<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-tobacco-campaign","category-smoking-bans-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-7u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":371,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=371","url_meta":{"origin":464,"position":0},"title":"Court shoots down Jackson, Wyoming smoking ban","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"February 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A state court in Wyoming overturned Teton County (Jackson's) smoking ban, saying it violated the state constitution. 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