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EDITORIAL: Time to light up or snuff out 

Jump to full article: Caymanian Compass (ky), 2008-01-09

Intro:

It's time for Government to clear the air on the whole smoking law issue.

Is Cayman going to get smoking legislation or not?

And if it is approved, what is it going to look like? . . .

Let's hope that the Government can show us that good, meaningful, well researched and insightful thought has been put in to the regulations that make up the Tobacco Law.

To give us a watered-down version that doesn't provide enforcement of the law wouldn't be fair to the citizens of this country. It would only mean that Government was telling us what the majority wanted to hear - that smoking legislation has been approved.

If it's not time for the legislation with rigorous regulations, then it's not time.

But it is time to get off the fence.

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