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DEA to Hold Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day April 28--Thousands of Drop-Off Locations-- Nearly a Million Pounds of Prescription Drugs Turned in During Previous Take Backs--

April 16 (St. Louis, MO) – The St. Louis Division of the DEA and its national and community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, April 28th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, DEA and its partners will hold their fourth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day at sites nationwide. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked. The St. Louis Field Division includes offices in Missouri, southern Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, and Iowa. >> Full Story

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• No statewide smoking ban. Instead, Missouri's 1992 statewide smoking law, the Indoor Clean Air Act, prohibits smoking in all enclosed public places (including workplaces) and public meetings, except in designated smoking areas, which may occupy no more than 30% of the place's enclosed area. Warning signs must be appropriately posted either way. Local governments may prohibit smoking in schools, child daycare facilities, and school buses, as well as in public places. Bars, restaurants that seat fewer than 50 people, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, retail tobacco shops, rooms and halls used for private social functions, limousines and taxicabs where the driver and all passengers agree to smoking,stage performances including smoking, indoor sports stadiums seating more than 15,000 people, and private residences  

•  "are not considered a public place". 
• On June 23, 2009, the Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled that Kansas City's 2008 local ban on smoking in all workplaces, including bars and billiard parlors, did not conflict with this statute and was not preempted. The Supreme Court of Missouri later declined to hear an appeal from that decision. Attempts in the Missouri General

• Assembly to enact some form of statewide smoking ban have failed every year since 2008. Bills by Senator Joan Bray before the Missouri Senate in 2008, 2009, and 2010 and a bill by Rep. Walt Bivens before the Missouri House of Representatives in 2010 all had few consponsors and little support, and failed without even receiving a committee hearing. In 2009, a proposal by Rep. Joe Fallert to amend the Constitution of Missouri to ban smoking statewide and a bill by Rep. Jill Schupp proposing .1% a tax on all non-smoke-free businesses also both failed this way. 

• In 2011, a bill by Rep. Jill Schupp to ban smoking statewide did have a number of cosponsors and received a brief hearing before a House committee, but the committee did not put it up for a vote. As of April 2011, Missouri has the lowest cigarette excise taxes in the United States, at 17 cents per pack, and the electorate voted in 2002 and 2006 to keep it that way. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2009 Missouri was tied (with Indiana) for the fifth highest percentage of adult smokers among U.S. states, at 23.1%. In January 2011, the House of Representatives voted to continue allowing smoking in its half of the

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• One county bans smoking in many places, though exempting bars and casinos. 9 cities and one county have rejected a smoking ban in some manner. On April 5, 2011, Cape Girardeau became one of the few cities in the United States ever to have rejected a smoking ban 
•  in a public vote.
• Localities in Missouri with a smoking ban that includes all bars and restaurants 21 total:

• Ballwin, January 2, 2006, banned in all workplaces, including bars, and restaurants; exempts private clubs with no employees.
• Belton, August 5, 2009, banned in all enclosed public places and workplaces, by public vote in April 2009; exempts business vehicles where all occupants agree to allow smoking, any businesses occupied exclusively by one smoker, private and semiprivate rooms in nursing homes, retail tobacco 

stores, and private clubs; all existing businesses that allow smoking are exempt until August 5, 2012; existing bars and restaurants that allow smoking are exempt until August 5, 2016.

•  Brentwood, January 1, 2011, banned in all enclosed public places and workplaces, by City Council vote of 7–1 in August 2010; exempts designated hotel and motel smoking rooms, tobacco shops, private homes, and private vehicles.
• Chillicothe, January 1, 2008, banned in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants, by City Council vote of 4–1, after 56% of voters approved of the idea in a referendum; exempts separately-ventilated offices occupied exclusively by smokers.

• Columbia, January 9, 2007, banned in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts rented social halls, separately-ventilated offices occupied exclusively by smokers, stage performances, retail tobacco shops, and private clubs with no employees.

• Fulton, January 31, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants, after public vote of 53.85%–46.15%.

• Hannibal, October 4, 2012, banned in all enclosed workplaces,  
• including bars and restaurants, after public vote of 55.8%–44.2%; exempts designated smoking rooms in hotels and motels, private residences, private clubs, outdoor areas, and retail tobacco stores.
• Independence, March 17, 2007, banned in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants, per 

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referendum in November 2006; exempts private and semiprivate rooms in nursing homes occupied exclusively by smokers.

• Kansas City, June 7, 2008, banned in all indoor workplaces, except casino gaming floors and establishments receiving more than 80% of their revenue from tobacco but neither sell nor serve food or beverages, after public vote of 52%–48% but halted by the Circuit Court of Jackson County on June 4, 2008, after businesses sued Kansas City on the grounds that state law permitted them to allow smoking; and then reinstated by the court on June 21, 2008. On June 23, 2009, the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled that Kansas City's ban on smoking did not conflict with the state's Indoor Clean Air Act,  and the Supreme Court of Missouri declined to hear an appeal from that decision.

• Kirksville, July 1, 2007, banned in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts private clubs.                  
• Kirkwood, January 2, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all restaurants and bars, after public vote of 65%–35%; exempts private clubs, private residences, private vehicles, smoking rooms in hotels and motels, and retail tobacco stores.
• Jefferson City, January 31, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants, after public vote of 58%–42%.
• Lee's Summit, December 8, 2006 banned in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants, per referendum in November 2006; exempts private and semiprivate rooms in nursing homes occupied exclusively by smokers, retail tobacco stores, and private clubs.

Liberty, January 2, 2010, banned in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants, and in public parks, by public vote of 2,684 yes to 1,127 no; exempts outdoor patios, private residences, and smoking rooms in hotels  and motels.

• Maryville, October 1, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants, by a city council vote of 3–2.
• Nixa, June 8, 2007, banned in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts rented social halls, taxicabs and limousines where both driver and passengers agree to allow smoking, stage performances, designated areas of shopping malls, retail tobacco shops, and designated employee smoking areas not accessible to the general public.

 North Kansas City, July 10, 2008, banned in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts casinos and 
• retail tobacco shops.
• Get $20 off on order amount of $300 and upto $500.Rolla, January 1, 2012, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants, by a city council vote of 8–4 on June 6, 2011; 

• exempts private clubs with no employees, outdoor areas, designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, and private homes and vehicles
• Springfield, June 11, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all restaurants, bars, and retail tobacco shops, after public vote of 53%–47% on April 5, 2011; exempts only private residences and 20% of hotel and motel rooms.St. Louis, January 2, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; indefinitely exempts casino gaming floors and VIP lounges (unless St. Louis County and St. Charles County 

• and/or St. Charles city also prohibit casino gaming floors), private clubs with no employees, retail tobacco stores, designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, private residences, and outdoor areas; bars in existence on January 2, 2011, that are less than 2,000 square feet (190 m2) and do not allow under-21 patrons are exempt until January 2, 2016Warrensburg, November 30, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts private clubs, retail tobacco stores, any stores whose revenue is at least 80% from tobacco, stage performances involving smoking, designated smoking areas in institutions of higher education, outdoor patios, 

• designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, and private residences.
• Localities in Missouri with a smoking ban that does not include all bars and restaurants 10 total:
• Arnold, November 1, 2004, banned in all restaurants/restaurant-bars seating 50 people or more, except in separately-ventilated smoking rooms; does not touch standalone bars or other places; exempts any establishment otherwise classified as a restaurant, that receives 70% or more of its revenue from alcohol sales

• Blue Springs, May 1, 2008, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including most restaurants; exempts bars, restaurants that seat less than 50 people, restaurants that receive less than 60% of their revenue from food sales, 
• bowling alleys, bingo halls during bingo games, rented social halls, private dances open to the public, and retail tobacco shops.
• Clayton, July 1, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants and some bars; exempts cigar bars, tobacco shops, 20% of hotel and motel rooms, and outdoor areas
• Creve Coeur, January 2, 2011, banned by unanimous city council vote in all enclosed workplaces,including restaurants; exempts bars, cigar bars, private clubs, tobacco shops, and hotel/motel designated smoking rooms

• Gladstone, May 24, 2009, banned by City Council vote of 4–1 in all enclosed workplaces and city parks; exempts any business 

• Join in Dollars club and get 5% offer on your every second purchase at myotcstore.com.existing and licensed to serve liquor on January 1, 2009, that customarily allows smoking and remains under the same ownership; further exempts all bars, taverns, restaurants seating less than 50 people, billiard parlors, bowling alleys, retail tobacco shops, rented social halls, taxicabs and limousines where both driver and passengers agree to allow smoking, stage performances involving smoking, private clubs, private and semiprivate rooms in nursing homes occupied exclusively by smokers, and a percentage of hotel and motel rooms.

Lake Saint Louis, September 30, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all restaurants and bars, by Board of Aldermen vote of 4–2 on March 15, 2010;  exempts designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, private clubs with no employees, outdoor areas, cigar bars, and retail tobacco stores.
O'Fallon, June 4, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all restaurants, after public vote of 73%–27% on April 5, 2011; exempts cigar bars, private clubs, retail tobacco stores, private residences, outdoor areas, and 20% of hotel and motel rooms.Raymore, August 22, 2008, banned in all public places and within 100 feet (30 m) of the entrance to

• public places (except on outdoor patios), including most restaurants; exempts bars, restaurants with bars, private clubs, stage performances, restaurants that seat fewer than 50 people, bowling alleys, billiard
• parlors, taxicabs and limousines where both driver and passengers agree to allow smoking, and retail tobacco shops.
• Parkville, April 7, 2011, banned in all enclosed public places and workplaces by Board of Aldermen; exempts all bars, taverns, restaurants seating less than 50 people, billiard parlors, bowling alleys, retail tobacco shops, rented social halls, taxicabs and limousines where both driver and passengers agree to allow smoking, stage performances involving smoking, and private clubs.

St. Louis County, January 2, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants, after public vote of 65%–35% on November 3, 2009; exempts certain drinking establishments (bars having 25% or less gross sales of food, were in existence on Jan. 2, 2011 and have applied for a smoking exemption certificate),  cigar bars, casino gaming floors, private clubs, performing on stage as part of a theatrical production, private and semi-private rooms in nursing homes and rest homes, retail tobacco shops, smoking rooms in hotels and motels, and smoking lounges at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

• Localities in Missouri where a smoking ban or other smoking restriction was rejected in some manner 10 total:

• Cape Girardeau, April 5, 2011, ban on smoking in all enclosed workplaces, including bars, restaurants, and casinos, rejected by public vote of 52%–48%.

• Carthage, February 2, 2009, ban on smoking in all restaurants indefinitely tabled by City 

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• Farmington, October, 2007, mayor vetoed a ban on smoking in restaurant, and the City Council rejected a ban on smoking in all workplaces in January 2008 by a vote of 6–2
• Joplin, October 18, 2010, City Council rejected a proposed ban on smoking in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants, by a vote of 5–4
• Raytown, October 7, 2008, Board of Aldermen rejected even taking up the issue of a new smoking 

• ordinance, by a vote of 6–4; on September 8, 2009, the Board of Aldermen rejected a proposed smoking ban on all enclosed workplaces, including all  bars and restaurants, by a vote of 7–3.
• Riverside, June 16, 2009, Board of Aldermen rejected taking up the issue of a smoking ordinance, by a vote of 4–2.
• Smithville, December 18, 2007, Board of Aldermen unanimously rejected a ban on smoking in all workplaces, including restaurants and bars

• St. Charles, May 2008, City Council rejected even taking up the issue of a ban on smoking in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants, by a vote of 6–4, and also rejected sending the proposed ban to votersSt. Charles County, June 2011, County Executive vetoed a proposed referendum on a countywide smoking ban including all bars and restaurants but exempting casinos and cigar bars; November 29, 2011, County

• Get Free Shipping on Health & Beauty Orders Over $25. * Exclusive for first time shoppers.Council rejected sending a proposed ban on smoking in all workplaces, including restaurants and bars, to voters by a vote of 3–3
• Webb City, April 11, 2011, City Council rejected a ban on smoking in all workplaces, including restaurants and bars, by vote of 5–3; June 13, 2011, City Countil again rejected the same proposal, 5-3

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