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OHIO COURT OUTLAWS LOCAL DEMOCRACY Appeal To U.S. Supreme Court Is Not Expected Colon, OH - (GNS) - The Ohio Supreme Court crushed the health ambitions of individual cities in the state yesterday ruling that local laws banning smoking in all public places were unconstitutional. Judges cited the tobacco exception to the preamble of the Constitution in their opinion. "I thought democracy meant that if we didn't want something that threatens our health, we could make it illegal," said anti-smoking activist John Adams. "I don't understand it," declared Betsy Ross, an exasperated former cheerleader who now works as a cheer instructor at the public school in Notreville. "Why does there have to be a state law on this that supercedes local law? I can understand why cheerleading squads have to be uniform, but why smoking laws?" Activists said they were not likely to appeal, given the current make-up of the U.S. Supreme Court. "They go after marijuana, not tobacco," said Adams. |
