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USAStarStripes: The Illinois law that you are probably speaking about is the "smoking ban" in businesses. This cannot be tabulated until the full FY2008 is complete and those potentially lost revenues will be computed in the FY2010 budget.

We've actually noticed a huge customer increase in the restaurants that we frequent after our ball games. I believe most smokers don't patronize an establishment just to puff on that cancer stick. They just like the business and will have to inhale outside.

Some of Illinois' budget problems deal with allocating a half of billion dollars for the bridge from Illinois to Missouri. As you are aware Missouri budgeted zilch for project while IDOT did this a year or two ago.