2006 Initiative General Election Results

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Initiative: Issue 5 (Ohio Smoking Ban Initiative)

Popular Vote

Yes

2,370,369

58.52%

1,679,956

41.48%

Turnout

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Election Notes:

To enact Chapter 3794. of the Ohio Revised Code to restrict smoking in places of employment and most places open to the public. The proposed law would: Prohibit smoking in public places and places of employment; Exempt from the smoking restrictions certain locations, including private residences (except during the hours that the residence operates as a place of business involving non-residents of the private residence), designated smoking rooms in hotels, motels, and other lodging facilities; designated smoking areas for nursing home residents; retail tobacco stores, outdoor patios, private clubs, and family-owned and operated places of business; Authorize a uniform statewide minimum standard to protect workers and the public from secondhand tobacco smoke; Allow for the declaration of an establishment, facility, or outdoor area as nonsmoking; Require the posting of “No Smoking” signs, and the removal of all ashtrays and similar receptacles from any area where smoking is prohibited; Specify the duties of the department of health to enforce the smoking restrictions Create in the state treasury the “smoke free indoor air fund;” Provide for the enforcement of the smoking restrictions and for the imposition of civil fines upon anyone who violates the smoking restrictions. A majority yes vote is necessary for passage

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Source for Popular Vote data: Ohio Secretary of State. State Issue 5: November 7, 2006, Ohio Secretary of State (http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/elections/Research/electResultsMain/2006ElectionsResults/06-1107Issue5.aspx) (accessed 27 Oct 2015)
Source for Population data: U.S. Census Bureau.

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