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DID YOU KNOW
10 years ago in the legislature
In 1997, state legislators were sponsoring tobacco bills to make companies report cigarette ingredients and to make the possession and use of tobacco by a person under 18 a crime punishable by fines up to $100.
“Quote of the Day” from Feb. 1997:
“You know it’s a good law when the tobacco industry has already declared war on it.”
– Rep. Martha Kreutz, R-Littleton, sponsor of the bill to make tobacco companies report cigarette ingredients
Source: Denver Post archives
Can we quote you on that?
“You want to go to a healthy place? Go to a health club.”
– Sen. Lois Tochtrop, on her bill to let bar
owners buy smoking licenses
Compiled by Bonnie Gilbert and Jeri Clausing
