Get out the popcorn; this will make my neighbor’s head explode.
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StopTheDrugWar.org is reporting that Oregon has a bill before the state legislature that would re-schedule cigarettes to Schedule III and require a doctor’s prescription to purchase them.
From the article:
“Sponsored by Rep. Mitch Greenlick (D-Portland), the bill, House Bill 2077, would make violations a Class A misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of up to one year in prison, a $6,250 fine, or both. The same penalty would apply to both possession and distribution.”
Sometimes we get it right here in Oregon. The current no-smoking law says you can’t smoke within 10 feet of any building entrance. This is really stupid. 10 feet isn’t enough to protect anyone. The clinic I go to has a sign saying that smoking is only permitted inside vehicles – not in the parking lot, or up by the entrance. I wish Oregon would amend it’s bill to require that. As someone who has an allergic reaction to cigarette smoke (my throat becomes inflamed and swells, my head hurts, I experience nausea) that aspect of the law does nothing to protect me.
The neighbor mentioned in the title is a smoker and is a tenant whose business is next door to ours. He’s not allowed to smoke in the building but we’ve put up with it for years. Now he smokes outside, but it took around seven years of complaining before he finally stopped.
I lost my mother to COPD and congestive heart failure. She smoked until my brother carried her into the emergency room in 1986. I should re-phrase that. She smoked her last cigarette AS he was carrying her into the ER. She received her diagnosis that day. She died ten years later. If this bill will help other people to re-think their decision to smoke, then pass it.
Cigarette smokers no longer rule the day here in Oregon. Health does.
Here’s a link to the article:
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