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		<title>The Next Step: Banning Smoking on Patios</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/the-next-step-banning-smoking-on-patios/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smoking on patios is restricted in Minnesota Cities<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=247&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Attack by &quot;Shot in the Dark&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheila and I were featured in an article in Sunday&#8217;s Star Tribune titled, &#8220;Whose Life is it Anyway?&#8230;&#8221; The article lacks the normal bias of most Star Tribune articles; however, it doesn&#8217;t necessarily put us in good light.
Shot in the Dark, a website/blog devoted to current events unfairly attacked us reagrding the Star Tribune article. The author, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=225&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Bail Out Our Charities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Australia, small charities are suffering from the introduction of indoor smoking bans. From the Sydney Morning Herald:
THE introduction of the indoor smoking ban last year cost clubs and pubs almost $1.7 million a day in poker machine revenue, cutting thousands of jobs in the industry and putting at risk future donations to charities and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=219&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atlantic City: Smoking in Casinos Returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTIC CITY &#8211; &#8220;Everybody lit up, everybody,&#8221; says Katie Spillane describing an area of Borgata slots at 12:01 this morning, the minute the smoking ban was lifted.&#8220;The hooray&#8217;s and ‘yeah it&#8217;s back’ and the people slinging ash trays for us, it was great,&#8221; she says.For more than a month Atlantic City&#8217;s casino gaming floors were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=210&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Quotes from House Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I most certainly would vote in favor of repealing the ban. I am a stauch advocate of personal property rights and individual freedom.

-Judy Lindsay, District 37B (Map)
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I believe the Smoking Ban crusade that has swept the country needs to be challenged.&#160;&#160;
The bias in the media has made it all but impossible to explain the true [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=196&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts from an Anti-Smoker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve recently been sending out surveys to all the Minnesota House incumbents, as well as their challengers for the Minnesota House Elections in November. Most of the authors of the smoking ban have refused to reply or complete the survey, but Daniel Severson of Sauk Rapids was kind enough to respond.
I do appreciate Mr. Severson [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=161&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Master Settlement Agreement</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/the-master-settlement-agreement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May of 1998, &#8220;Skip&#8221; Humphrey, then Attorney General of Minnesota, entered into Minnesota&#8217;s tobacco settlement agreement with &#8220;big tobacco&#8221; as a result of evidence of the tobacco companies withholding information about the potential harm of their products, and to protect themselves from future lawsuits and litigation. 
As a result of this settlement, in November [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=146&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Bought the Minnesota Smoking Ban, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/who-bought-the-minnesota-smoking-ban-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Attorney General Mike Hatch wrongfully labeled as a &#8220;big tobacco shill&#8221;, by 2005-2006 MPAAT had now discredited him to the point he had no choice but to no longer address the waste of $10,000,000 per year of tobacco settlement monies.
So, in 2006, presumably because of exposure of the MPAAT corruption, MPAAT changed its name to &#8220;Clearway [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=banthebanminnesota.wordpress.com&blog=3972161&post=102&subd=banthebanminnesota&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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