I am a longtime Republican Conservative and Business owner. I congratulate Arizona State University and the many other colleges that are banning smoking and other forms of tobacco use on their Campuses. Smoking does NOT belong in an Institution where today’s best are being prepared to be tomorrow’s leaders.

A draft of an Arizona smoking ban proposal unveiled Tuesday would prohibit people from lighting up in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and eateries statewide.

Attorneys for Tempe bar owners spent two days in court this week fending off allegations that thousands of signatures collected to challenge Tempe’s smoking ban were illegally gathered.

Arizona State University will become a tobacco-free campus beginning next summer, but in protest and to raise awareness of the ban, one student-led group passed out cigarettes to students on the Tempe campus Wednesday.

Phoenix business owners who fought the state’s smoking ban have agreed to a $10,000 settlement.

The Gilbert Town Council on Tuesday will consider restricting the use of tobacco products to designated areas at public parks.

A split Gilbert Town Council Tuesday decided against restricting smoking in public parks.

State health officials are trying to figure out how far away from cigarette smoke is far enough.

CLEVELAND - When Ohio voters last fall banned smoking in public places, Richard Stone got inspired to try to quit his 15-year, one-pack-aday cigarette habit. “If I go to a bar, I want to enjoy myself and not think I have to get up every 10 minutes and go outside to have a smoke,” said Stone, 30.

Arizonans are likely to see two smoking-related ballot initiatives at the polls in November, including one that backers of a statewide smoking ban say Big Tobacco is funding to confuse and deceive voters.

Robert Morley is a Libertarian and often speaks out for the rights of others to practice their free will. But the cigarette smoke he’s spotted curling about playground equipment where his three children play in the Gilbert Finley Farms development is too much for him to bear.

Supporters of a statewide smoking ban are putting the finishing touches on a ballot initiative that would outlaw smoking inside all public buildings — including bars and restaurants.

Supporters of a statewide smoking ban are putting the finishing touches on a ballot initiative that would outlaw smoking inside all public buildings — including bars and restaurants.

An initiative to create a statewide smoking ban in Arizona was filed Wednesday, calling for the elimination of smoking from all bars and restaurants by May 2007.

An initiative to create a statewide smoking ban in Arizona was filed Wednesday, calling for the elimination of smoking from all bars and restaurants by May 2007.

July 22, 2004

Antismoking advocates have begun to lay the groundwork for a possible 2006 voter initiative for a statewide ban on lighting up in public.