New York
Smoking Ban Targeted
As reported by the Syracuse
Post-Standard: "Oneida County Health Department
officials have told the Oneida Indian Nation they
will begin enforcing the state's no-smoking law
at one of the few remaining havens for local smokers
- the tribe's Turning Stone Resort and Casino.
"County officials say the U.S. Supreme Court's
ruling in March clears the way for them to enforce
the smoking ban and all other state and county health
codes on nation-owned properties. The high court
ruled March 29 that the nation could not assert
sovereignty over land that has been out of its hands
for nearly 200 years.
"…An area citizens group, the Upstate
Citizens for Equality or UCE, has been after the
county for months to either enforce the state's
smoking ban at Turning Stone or not enforce it anywhere.
The group filed legal action to that end in May…"
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