On the Campaign Trail with Ed Tibbetts

Smoke ban gone local

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 2:47 pm

This is interesting. The local goverment in Sioux City is mulling a ban on smoking at casinos. Some folks aren’t happy the Iowa Legislature exempted the casino floors from the statewide ban, so they’re thinking about going the rest of the way.

I would think they’d be pre-empted by state law from doing it, but I’m no lawyer. I just cover them when they run for office.

Anyway, here’s the story in the Sioux City Journal, a sister paper to the Times. What do you figure the chances are the city councils in Davenport and Bettendorf will follow suit?

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