Smoking ban may be snuffed

Publication Date: 2005-03-23

• Author:Mark P. Couch
• Publication:Denver (CO) Post

Republicans in the Colorado Senate have stalled - at least temporarily - the effort to ban smoking in public places statewide.

Senate Minority Leader Mark Hillman of Burlington said all 17 Republican senators are opposing the bill because it infringes on personal freedom and property rights.

"I don't smoke, and I think it's disgusting," Hillman said. "But I'm sick and tired of all these nannies running around telling people what to do."

The bill's sponsor, Sen. Dan Grossman, D-Denver, said he has delayed his plan to introduce the bill.