Smoking Ban Ads: Your Tax Dollars at Work
Nathan Greene
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By Emily Geiger
State Sen. Brad Zaun is bringing attention to the fact that $600,000.00 of Iowans’ tax dollars have been used in the ad campaign from the Department of Public Health to promote the passage of the proposed smoking ban. And on top of that, Zaun says that not all of the “waitresses” and “bartenders” in the ads are actually even waitresses and bartenders.
So you all know by now that a state-wide smoking ban is not going to keep me up at night. In fact, I’d personally like to be able to go out and not come home smelling like I just rolled around in a fireplace. However, I do have a problem with state dollars being used to advocate for certain legislation.
If we can use tax dollars to advocate for the smoking ban based on the potential for lives being saved by this legislation, then I have another idea. How about we have a $600,000.00 ad campaign advocating for 24-hour waiting periods for abortions and true informed consent laws? We might as well throw in true parental consent for minors who want abortions as well. This would likely save lives, too. So where’s our state funding for these ads?
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