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Issue 4 is pushing to reduce smoking in Ohio, while Issue 5 will ban smoking in Ohio all together.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Ballot Language:</span><br />The <a href="http://http//www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/ElectionsVoter/results2006.aspx?Section=1858">official ballot language</a>, found on the Ohio Secretary of State's Web site is:<br />"This proposed amendment would prohibit smoking in enclosed areas except tobacco stores, private residences or nonpublic facilities, separate smoking areas in restaurants, most bars, bingo and bowling facilities, separated areas of hotels and nursing homes, and race tracks. The amendment would invalidate retroactively any ordinance or local law in effect, and would prohibit the future adoption of any ordinance or local law to the extent such ordinance or law prohibited smoking or tobacco products in anyplace exempted by the amendment."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Interpretation:</span><br />This means that a majority vote for Issue 4 would limit smoking in most public places and it would create an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Ohio, making all existing and future laws on the smoking ban defunct. <a href="http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/ElectionsVoter/results2006.aspx?Section=1875">(This is what the proposed amendment would look like on paper.)</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Where Can I Smoke, If Issue 4 Passes?</span><br /><ul><li>Separate smoking areas of restaurants</li><li>Most Bars</li><li>Bingo or bowling areas</li><li>Racetracks</li><li>Tobacco stores</li><li>Separated areas of hotels, adult day care and nursing homes</li><li>Facilities from which minors are prohibited</li><li>Residences</li><li>Privately-owned facilities that are not open to the public</li></ul><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/ElectionsVoter/results2006.aspx?Section=1870">An Argument F</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/ElectionsVoter/results2006.aspx?Section=1870">or Issue 4:</a><br /></span>Issue 4 will ban smoking in 90% of Ohio businesses. It will also give most businesses (bars, bowling alleys, bingo locations and restaurants-must be enclosed areas) the smoking option. Jacob Evans, President of the <a href="http://www.smokelessohio.com/">Smoke Less Ohio campaign</a> said that Issue 4 "provides exceptions for places where there are no minor children or where a total ban would threaten the health of the business."<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />An Argument Against Issue 4:<br /></span></span><a href="http://smokefreeohio.org/oh/">Smoke Free Ohio</a>, the campaign for Issue 5, have several reason why Ohio citizens should vote "No" on Issue 4:<ul><li>Issue 4 keeps smoke in restaurants and many public places.</li><li>Issue 4 leaves 500,000 hospitality workers and their customers exposed to dangerous secondhand smoke.</li><li>Issue 4 overturns smoke-free laws already in place in Columbus and 20 other Ohio cities and prevents anyone from ever passing a smoke-free law without an amendment to the constitution.</li><li>Issue 4 is backed by Big Tobacco companies. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2197/4473/1600/neonnosmoking.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2197/4473/200/neonnosmoking.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2197/4473/1600/neonnosmoking.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2197/4473/200/neonnosmoking.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2197/4473/1600/neonnosmoking.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2197/4473/200/neonnosmoking.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></li></ul><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);font-size:180%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >What is Issue 5?</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"></span></span></span><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2197/4473/1600/illusionvreality.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2197/4473/320/illusionvreality.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />While issue 4 is still pushing to reduce smoking in Ohio, issue 5 wants to ban smoking in Ohio all together.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Ballot L</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">a</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">nguage:</span><br /><a href="http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/ElectionsVoter/results2006.aspx?Section=2322"> The official</a><a href="http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/ElectionsVoter/results2006.aspx?Section=2322"> b</a><a href="http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/ElectionsVoter/results2006.aspx?Section=2322">allot language </a>, found on the Ohio Secretary of State's Web site is:<br /><br />"This proposed amendment would prohibit smoking in public places and places of employment; authorize a uniform statewide minimum standard to protect workers and the public from secondhand tobacco smoke; allow for the declaration of an establishment, facility, or outdoor area as nonsmoking; require the posting of “No Smoking” signs, and the removal of all ashtrays and similar receptacles from any area where smoking is prohibited; specify the duties of the department of health to enforce the smoking restrictions, create in the state treasury the “smoke free indoor air fund;” provide for the enforcement of the smoking restrictions and for the imposition of civil fines upon anyone who violates the smoking restrictions.”<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Interpretation:</span><br />This means that a majority vote for Issue 5 would ban smoking in most public places.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Where Can I Smoke, If Issue 5 Passes?</span><br /><ul> <li>Private residences (except during the hours that the residence operates as a place of business involving non-residents of the private residence)</li><li>Designated smoking rooms in hotels, motels, and other lodging facilities</li><li>Designated smoking areas for nursing home residents</li><li>Tobacco stores</li><li>Outdoor patios</li><li>Private clubs</li><li>Family-owned and operated places of business</li> </ul><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">An Argument For Issue 5:</span><br />According to <a href="http://www.smokefreeohio.org/oh/"> Smoke Free Ohio </a>, the campaign for Issue 5, Issue 5 defends your right to breathe smoke-free air in all restaurants, public places and workplaces, protects all workers, families, children and seniors from the dangers of secondhand smoke and is supported by the American Cancer Society and more than 500 organizations and businesses.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">An Argument Against Issue 5:</span><br /><a href="http://www.smokelessohio.com/"> Smoke Less Ohio </a>, the campaign for Issue 4, considers Issue 4 not Issue 5 the “common-sense smoking ban” because it would protect people from unwanted exposure to tobacco smoke, “but it doesn’t have to mean telling people how they should run their lives or their business.”<br /><br />(Both<a href="http://www.smokelessohio.com/"> Smoke Less</a> and <a href="http://smokefreeohio.org/oh/">Smoke Free Ohio</a> have charts comparing the two Issues, check them out!)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="clear:both; 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