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St. Louis |
SUPPORT BAN? (Y/N/U) |
SMOKER? (S/NS/Q) |
PACKS (#/day) |
BRAND |
YRS SMOKED (#) |
TIMES TRIED TO QUIT (� =
SUCCESS) |
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NAME/TITLE |
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Francis Slay, Mayor |
BUTT HEAD |
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Jeff Rainford (Slay - Chief of Staff)1 |
Y |
NS |
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Barbara Geisman (Slay - Deputy Mayor) |
BUTT HEAD |
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Ron Smith (Slay - Chief of Operations) |
cnr |
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Robbyn Wahby (Slay - Senior Aide)2 |
n/c |
Q |
"A lot" |
Benson & Hedges |
15 |
many� |
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Ed Rhode (Slay - Communications) |
Y |
NS� |
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�occasional cigar |
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Tim Embree (Slay - Senior Aide)3 |
n/c |
Q |
<1 |
Camel Lights |
8 |
1� |
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Lewis Reed, Alderman (Board President) |
BUTT HEAD |
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Tom Shepard (Reed - Chief of Staff) |
BUTT HEAD |
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Harry Kennedy (Reed - Legislative Director) |
BUTT HEAD |
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Rory Roundtree (Reed - Communications) |
YR |
NS |
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(Ward 1) Charles Quincy Troupe, Alderman4 |
Y |
Q |
4 |
"Anything I could get" |
7 |
2� |
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(2) Dionne Flowers5 |
U |
NS |
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(3) Freeman M. Bosley Sr.6 |
Y |
Q |
<1 |
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1 |
1� |
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(4) Samuel L. Moore |
BUTT HEAD |
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(5) April Ford-Griffin7 |
Y |
NS |
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(6) Kacie Starr Triplett |
BUTT HEAD |
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(7) Phyllis Young |
YRS |
NS |
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(8) Stephen Conway8 |
U |
S |
n/c |
"The cheapest" |
many |
1 |
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(9) Kenneth Ortmann9 |
N |
NS� |
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�occasional cigar |
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(10) Joseph Vollmer10 |
N |
S� |
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�cigars |
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(11) Matt Villa |
BUTT HEAD |
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(12) Fred Heitert |
YS |
Q |
>1 |
Winston |
>20 |
3� |
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(13) Alfred Wessels Jr. |
BUTT HEAD |
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(14) Stephen Gregali11 |
N |
Q� |
n/c |
�occasional cigar or cigarette |
>15 |
1 |
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(15) Jennifer Florida12 |
YS |
NS |
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(16) Donna Baringer |
BUTT HEAD |
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(17) Joseph D. Roddy |
BUTT HEAD |
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(18) Terry Kennedy |
Y |
NS |
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(19) Marlene Davis13 |
Y |
Q |
<1 |
Kool |
15 |
1� |
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(20) Craig Schmid14 |
U |
NS |
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(21) Antonio D. French15 |
U |
NS |
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(22) Jeffrey Boyd |
BUTT HEAD |
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(23) Joe Vaccaro |
BUTT HEAD |
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(24) William Waterhouse |
BUTT HEAD |
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(25) Shane Cohn16 |
U |
NS |
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(26) Frank Williamson17 |
Y |
S |
<1 |
Newport |
34 |
5 |
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(27) Gregory Carter18 |
U |
Q |
<1 |
"I don't remember" |
>10 |
1� |
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(28) Lyda Krewson19 |
Y |
NS |
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Darlene Green, Comptroller |
BUTT HEAD |
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John Zakibe (Green - Deputy Comptroller) |
BUTT HEAD |
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Ivy Neyland-Pinkston (Green - Deputy Comptroller) |
BUTT HEAD |
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Elaine Spearman (Green - Legal Advisor) |
U |
Q |
<1 |
"Something menthol" |
5 |
1� |
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John Farrell (Green - Communications) |
BUTT HEAD |
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Jennifer Joyce, Circuit Attorney |
Y |
Q |
3 |
"Any and all" |
12 |
many� |
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Mariano Favazza, Circuit Clerk |
N |
S� |
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�cigars |
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1I have
asthma. My father died of emphysema and my stepfather died of heart disease,
which was caused by his smoking. |
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2I quit when I was
running for office. Leaders don't do things that set bad examples. |
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3I was in the
military, and tobacco use was very prevalent. |
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4Morally,
medically, logically, I support a smoking ban in the City of St. Louis. But
if we make it a money-driven issue, I see no reason to vote for it. It's got
to be pure, and be about health. |
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5I dressed up
as Minnie Mouse one time for Halloween and [some of my fellow aldermen] gave
me a cigar to take a picture with. I couldn't keep it lit! |
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6I was
sneaking and smoking in high school because the girl that I liked smoked. We
got married, she kept smoking, and I used to put her out on the back porch. |
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7It's like
music. I can enjoy my music, but it shouldn't bother anybody else. We have a
law against playing loud music. |
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8I do taxes
[as a CPA], and tax season is always a burden. But that's over now, so this
is the time when we [accountants try to] quit. |
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9I think
there should be exemptions. I think we need to work on it. |
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10Cigarette
smokers have an addiction. I've gone weeks and months without having a cigar. |
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11I'm one of
those people who, if I want one, I have one. It's more of a social thing.
I'll bum whatever the guy next to me has. |
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12I was
raised by smokers; I grew up in the back of a Cadillac — my mother and
father were road musicians — and they both smoked like fiends. So I've
probably inhaled enough secondhand smoke to do me in. |
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13I woke up
one day and just decided I didn't want to smell like smoke anymore. I didn't
want to spend my money on it anymore. I'm kind of cheap. It just didn't make
sense. |
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14I'm mulling
over whether there should be exceptions for places like casinos, where you
have to be a certain age to enter. |
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15I would
encourage more non-smoking places. I did have lunch today at J. Buck's with a
member of the mayor's office, who shall remain nameless, and who smokes. |
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16My vote
depends on whether the bill is constitutional. But ultimately I do support a
smoke-free St. Louis. |
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17I'm trying
to quit. I need all the help I can get. |
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18I can't
stand the smell of cigarettes now. My chest starts hurting. |
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19I'm not one
of these people who's adamantly anti-smoking, like if I'm around somebody
who's smoking, I don't get up and move. I think if you're a customer, yes,
you can make a choice to be in a smoking or non-smoking environment, but if
you're a worker, you can't. |
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cnr: Could not be reached |
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Butt Head: Declined to participate
or, like Mayor Slay, did not return message(s) |
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n/c: No comment |
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Robbyn Wahby, senior aide to Mayor Francis
Slay I was born in 1963. Things were really different.
Smoking was the "grown-up" thing to do. Everybody smoked. You made
ashtrays in your pottery class at school. For girls it was much like wearing
makeup: a rite of passage.... I used to put them in my socks in high school
and sneak them into the house. Did you know we had a smoking section at
Cleveland High School? |
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Charles Quincy Troupe, St. Louis alderman,
Ward 1 How did I quit? I was talking to this little white
lady and she was saying, "You're really having a problem smoking."
I said, "Yeah, I can't quit." She said, "This is what I did: I
took a cigarette, took one big drag, then put it back in the pack. Because
that's all you really want is the first drag anyway. So I did that for about
a week and a half and that was like 35 years ago. I've never smoked another
cigarette since." She gave me a system that worked. Now, I never in my
life smoked marijuana. But if I had a choice today whether I'd do marijuana
or cigarettes, I'd take the joint. And if I had a choice for my kids, I'd
rather see them smoke marijuana than a cigarette. |
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Freeman Bosley Sr., St. Louis alderman,
Ward 3 I'm the one that made it outlawed in all city
buildings. I've introduced about three pieces of anti-smoking legislation
over the years. Most of the aldermen were really ticked off at me. During my
smoking studies, I found out that rats, possums, raccoons, water bugs,
beetles love tobacco leaves. And they eat them. And when the farmers scoop up
the leaves with a frontloader or something, they put them in this grinder,
and the roaches and mice and water bugs get ground up in there — and
the flesh stinks. That is why they sprinkle tobacco leaves with formaldehyde
— that's what they pickle dead people with! And sometimes when you're
smoking, you notice a little zap! I tell people that's the rat eyeballs and
roach ears and possum guts that you're smoking there! |
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Fred Heitert, St. Louis alderman, Ward 12 I quit once for nine years. Another time I quit for a couple
months. The last time I said: This is it forever. My wife never started and I
thank God. I wish everybody could kick the habit.... I've told some of the
smokers who have called me, I say, "You've got to stop and think about
it: Only one out of every five people smoke, so you are definitely one in a
very, very, very small minority. But your health costs are more than twice
mine!" |
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Stephen Gregali, St. Louis alderman, Ward
14 I have fond memories of my former colleague, Albert
"Red" Villa, puffing away in the chamber. Smoking wasn't banned in
the chamber of the Board of Aldermen till after he left [in the early '90s].
He had been there for 30 years. He used to sit at his desk at the end of the
aisle, in the back row, during the session, smoking a cigar. |
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Frank Williamson, St. Louis alderman, Ward
26 I've tried real hard probably about four to five times
to quit.... Here's a story: This has only happened to me one time. I picked
up a cigarette and had the lit cigarette turned the wrong way. It really
hurt. I was really mad at myself. I got a blister. It really pissed me off.
But it didn't make me stop. |
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Jennifer Joyce, St. Louis circuit attorney I smoked all through college and law school and during my early
years as an attorney. I quit when I was 30. Both my parents died of cancer,
so it was pretty ridiculous to be sitting there smoking as much as I was.
Quitting smoking was a thousand times harder than graduating law school. It's
my proudest accomplishment.... I had a friend and she said, "Call me if
you're ever going to smoke." And one night I was about to, and I called
my friend and she said, "OK, go ahead — but before you do, walk to
the Schnucks on Arsenal, buy a salad, bring it home and eat it." I said,
"OK, fine." I went off in a huff. Well, it was like a five-mile
walk! But it turned out to be the best advice, because by the time I walked
two and a half miles to Schnucks, got my damn salad, walked two and a half
miles back, I was totally over the idea of having a cigarette. That was the
end of it for me. |
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Mariano Favazza, St. Louis circuit clerk You may know I lost 132 pounds recently. I gave up one bad
habit, eating, and picked up another, smoking cigars. I will light a cigar
and often re-light that cigar like five times in a day, and maybe not even
finish it.... There are several people in the courthouse who have private
offices like mine who occasionally light up. And most of those are people
like judges. So I wouldn't be the only one to strike a match in the
courthouse [where it is illegal to smoke]. I'll fess up: Yes, I do. And quite
honestly, I never thought there was an issue with that. If there is, somebody
has to tell me. |
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