{"id":39,"date":"2007-05-03T10:57:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T18:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2007\/05\/03\/the-midwest-is-joining-in\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T18:57:33","slug":"the-midwest-is-joining-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2007\/05\/03\/the-midwest-is-joining-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midwest is Joining In!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/smoking.jpeg\" title=\"smoking.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/smoking.thumbnail.jpeg\" alt=\"smoking.jpeg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>I was happy to see that Ohio passed an indoor smoking ban that took affect in December 2006.\u00c2\u00a0 I was even happier to see that now they are implementing fines for those restaurants that ignore the ban.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, I see that Indiana passed another tax increase on cigarettes that will cost an extra $.44 &#8211; the money will go to finance a health care program for low income individuals.\u00c2\u00a0 It is great to see the entire country working to eliminate or make smoking more difficult as well as combat the effects of secondhand smoke.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advertiser-tribune.com\/News\/articles.asp?articleID=7950\">\u00c2\u00a0&lt;&lt;Click Here to Read How Ohio Enforces No-Smoking Ban&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/medicalnews.php?newsid=69518\">&lt;&lt;Click Here to Read About The <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/medicalnews.php?newsid=69518\">Indiana Cigarette Tax Increase&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was happy to see that Ohio passed an indoor smoking ban that took affect in December 2006.\u00c2\u00a0 I was even happier to see that now they are implementing fines for those restaurants that ignore the ban.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, I see that Indiana passed another tax increase on cigarettes that will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}