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BASU: Logic takes detour with smoking-ban exemptions  

Jasper County residents this week voted overwhelmingly against legalizing casino gambling in Newton. Good for them. But with this law in place, could communities like Newton be pressured into allowing casinos just so smokers have a place to gather? And how would that contribute to the health of the community?

If the message is that the law is necessary to protect people's health, including employees', then the question has to be: Doesn't the state care about the health of gamblers and veterans and workers in those facilities?

Before Culver puts pen to paper on this one, he should be able to answer that question - and not just from the standpoint of politics, but of sound public policy.

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