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Jump to full article: Kankakee (IL) Journal, 2008-04-17
Author: Stephanie Sievers Springfield Bureau Sng2@springnet1.com 217-524-5797
Intro: The latest attempt to exempt riverboat casinos from the statewide smoking ban failed in the Illinois Senate Wednesday.
By a vote of 15-35, the Senate voted down a measure that would have exempted casinos for five years from the ban, which prohibits smoking in most indoor, public places in Illinois.
State Sen. Frank Watson, R-Greenville, had argued that gaming revenue has dropped by about 17 percent since the ban went into effect in January and that is a loss to the state coffers.
Watson used a parliamentary maneuver to tack the riverboat exemption onto a bill by state Sen. Terry Link, a sponsor of the original Smoke Free Illinois Act.
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