They still got it wrong. Monitoba has a bar and restaurant ban that includes Indian reservation so, by the billboard's logic Manitoba is "cleaner" than Minnesota. http://www.gov.mb.ca/healthyliving/smokingban.html First Nations bars, restaurants and casinos will no longer be exempt from Manitoba's smoking ban, provincial minister Dave Chomiak announced Wednesday. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2006/09/13/smoking-ban.html
Greg Lang
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/17222749.html
Minnesota: Clean air in a cloud of smoke
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A new billboard shows a clean, green Minnesota surrounded by smoke to celebrate the state's new smoke-free law.
By JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY, Star Tribune
Last update: April 2, 2008 - 1:56 PM
States will be reminded that the air is cleaner here.
Three billboards showing a satellite image of Minnesota as the clear green spot in a fog of tobacco smoke went up on highways at the borders of Wisconsin, South Dakota and North Dakota.
They were provided by three local anti-smoking coalitions who say they want to brag about Minnesota's status as the only state in the region with a state-wide smoking ban. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota provided the funding for the advertising.
"Today, our neighbors are not smoke-free," said Cynthia Piette, project coordinator for Smoke-Free Washington County, which is sponsoring a billboard on Interstate Hwy. 94 in Woodbury just over the border from Wisconsin. "We are the regional leader."
The antismoking groups chose today to unveil the billboards because it's "Kick Butts Day," and in honor of the six-month anniversary of the state's anti-smoking ban, which was April 1.
Josephine Marcotty • 612-673-7394
Minnesota: Clean air in a cloud of smoke
Dml -
A new billboard shows a clean, green Minnesota surrounded by smoke to celebrate the state's new smoke-free law.
By JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY, Star Tribune
Last update: April 2, 2008 - 1:56 PM
States will be reminded that the air is cleaner here.
Three billboards showing a satellite image of Minnesota as the clear green spot in a fog of tobacco smoke went up on highways at the borders of Wisconsin, South Dakota and North Dakota.
They were provided by three local anti-smoking coalitions who say they want to brag about Minnesota's status as the only state in the region with a state-wide smoking ban. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota provided the funding for the advertising.
"Today, our neighbors are not smoke-free," said Cynthia Piette, project coordinator for Smoke-Free Washington County, which is sponsoring a billboard on Interstate Hwy. 94 in Woodbury just over the border from Wisconsin. "We are the regional leader."
The antismoking groups chose today to unveil the billboards because it's "Kick Butts Day," and in honor of the six-month anniversary of the state's anti-smoking ban, which was April 1.
Josephine Marcotty • 612-673-7394
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