Monday, February 18 2008
By Jason Clayworth
The Des Moines Register online
Many Iowa farmers could be prohibited from smoking in their own tractors under a statewide tobacco ban that Iowa lawmakers may debate as early as today, some farmers and state representatives say.
"What are they going to do? Have the smoking-ban police come and sniff my combine?" asked Marty Hoskey, a farmer near Toledo who hires two part-time workers who smoke. "If they're going to tell me that my employees can't smoke in my own farm machinery then I ask, when is it going too far?"
The legislative proposal, House File 2212, bans tobacco use in almost all public places. It also prohibits smoking in enclosed locations that are places of employment.
At issue is how the terms "employer" and "employee" are defined.
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