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Home Front: Culture Wars
Pelosi bans smoking near House floor
2007-01-11
Smokers may be one minority in Congress with even fewer rights than newly demoted Republicans. Now they are losing one of their last, cherished prerogatives _ a smoke break in the ornate Speaker's Lobby just off the House floor.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced a ban Wednesday, effective immediately. "The days of smoke-filled rooms in the United States Capitol are over," Pelosi said. "Medical science has unquestionably established the dangerous effects of secondhand smoke, including an increased risk of cancer and respiratory diseases. I am a firm believer that Congress should lead by example."
Posted by:Fred

#10  "Medical science has unquestionably established the dangerous effects of secondhand smoke, including an increased risk of cancer and respiratory diseases.

If you repeat a lie often enough.....
Posted by: john   2007-01-11 14:33  

#9  Nancy's going to dictate one thing too many, and someone's going to kneecap her - just below the chin. There is plenty of evidence that smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. The "science" of secondhand smoke is tenuous at best, and sheer BS at worse - kinda like global warming.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-01-11 14:24  

#8  Already pactising for her Dictatorship I see.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2007-01-11 12:12  

#7  So... will she have enough guts to mandate piss/drug tests for congress critters?
(It only seems fair.)
Posted by: 3dc   2007-01-11 11:51  

#6  The medical effects of being slaughtered like a goat in a seventh-century demon rite remain unestablished.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-01-11 11:49  

#5  Stink bombs.

Just a thought...
Posted by: mojo   2007-01-11 10:56  

#4  Â…and you must wait a full half-hour after eating before swimming in the pool!
Posted by: DepotGuy   2007-01-11 10:08  

#3  Damn - for a minute I thought Pelosi was forbiding blowing smoke.

Now that would have been something!
Posted by: GORT   2007-01-11 08:15  

#2  I guess that means the Dems can still smoke near the ceiling if they want? :-)
Posted by: gorb   2007-01-11 05:19  

#1  There Ya go Nancy, send'm outside with their cancer sticks!!
Posted by: smn   2007-01-11 03:10  

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