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INSANE!

Bill Pushed to Stop Drivers From Smoking

JEFF LINKOUS, Associated Press Writer

Mon Jul 25, 3:41 AM ET

TRENTON, N.J. – Ashtrays have been disappearing in cars like fins on Cadillacs, and so could smoking while driving in New Jersey, under a measure introduced in the Legislature.

Although the measure faces long odds, it still has smokers incensed and arguing it’s a Big Brother intrusion that threatens to take away one of the few places they can enjoy their habit.

“The day a politician wants to tell me I can’t smoke in my car, that’s the day he takes over my lease payments,” said John Cito, a financial planner from Hackensack with a taste for $20 cigars.</i>


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