ST. LOUIS (KTVI-FOX2now.com) -
Missouri State senator Joan Bray's Bill 309 aims to ban smoking in Missouri. Part of the push, making flicking cigarette butts officially equal to littering and a class a misdemeanor punishable by a thousand dollar fine.
"I think we are persecuted enough to tell you the truth,"
There are not many spots that smokers like Blues fan Dyke Knacksedt can inhale indoors. Knackstedt stands outside to smoke a cigarette before a Blues game as Scottrade Center is smoke free. The push continues to make the entire state of Missouri smoke free as well.
"The reason in my district why I'm hearing so much about is Illinois accomplished it last year," says Missouri State Senator Joan Bray. "People on this side of the river want the same environment that is available there. It is litter, it's stinky litter," says Bray. "They are piled up scattered around it an unpleasant look anywhere."
Bray's bill seems stuck in committee and may not get out but the littering measure is meaningful to smokers and most we talked with smoking outside Scottrade actually agreed that flicking should be fineable.
"I understand it and I don't do that," says Knackstedt. "I will put it out in my pocket instead, I don't like the litter part of it"
"I mean look at this its littering," says smoker Mary Meyers as she points to the cigarette butts that dot the concrete outside Scottrade, "I don't have it in my yard why should we have it out here."
"I think we are persecuted enough to tell you the truth,"
There are not many spots that smokers like Blues fan Dyke Knacksedt can inhale indoors. Knackstedt stands outside to smoke a cigarette before a Blues game as Scottrade Center is smoke free. The push continues to make the entire state of Missouri smoke free as well.
"The reason in my district why I'm hearing so much about is Illinois accomplished it last year," says Missouri State Senator Joan Bray. "People on this side of the river want the same environment that is available there. It is litter, it's stinky litter," says Bray. "They are piled up scattered around it an unpleasant look anywhere."
Bray's bill seems stuck in committee and may not get out but the littering measure is meaningful to smokers and most we talked with smoking outside Scottrade actually agreed that flicking should be fineable.
"I understand it and I don't do that," says Knackstedt. "I will put it out in my pocket instead, I don't like the litter part of it"
"I mean look at this its littering," says smoker Mary Meyers as she points to the cigarette butts that dot the concrete outside Scottrade, "I don't have it in my yard why should we have it out here."
