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Last Updated on Monday, 3 March 2008 10:28 Written by rslcpol Monday, 3 March 2008 10:28
The American Cancer Society has issued its review, calling them a “reckless” endangerment of public health. And backers of Minnesota’s statewide prohibition on smoking in bars and restaurants say the performances make a mockery of the ban and that new legislation may be necessary to close the loophole that allows them to be staged.
“I, as a legislator, am obligated to support the intent of the law,” said Sen. Kathy Sheran, DFL-Mankato, one author of the ban that went into effect Oct. 1. “I would discourage people from doing this, because I think they know it violates the intent of the law.”