Louisiana’s bars and casinos can remain smoke-filled. The state House already had resoundingly thumped a bid to ban smoking in bars and gambling facilities. The House health care committee today refused to advance a scaled-back smoking ban proposal for debate, seeming to ensure the ban’s defeat for the session. Sen. Rob Marionneaux, D-Livonia, stripped casinos and other gambling facilities from the Senate-backed bill and limited the proposed ban to bars that sell food. Restaurants in Louisiana already are smoke-free. But Marionneaux’s bill still couldn’t gain passage from the House Health and Welfare Committee, where committee members said the House already had spoken about a smoking ban bill.
Second smoking ban bill defeated
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