Has California banned soda in schools yet?
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no first post is wrong, in 2007 all candy/soda is gone, for now you can drink what you want in highschool, no thoughts on elementary (im a highschooler)
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Any kind of soda, pop, seltzer works almost immediately.  Also, alka-seltzer
815887
No it hasn't but i want to know when it will... i skipped class all day so i could catch them play the dam song...
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First, let me confess that I'm not to up on California's propositions - but I did want to let you know that Maine has a $2.00 per pack tax - and it never even went to referendum. \nIt was pushed through the legislature by a special interest group called, "A Coalition For A Smoke Free Maine."\n\nIncidentally, the tax on alcohol didn't increase - seems there's a lot more legislatures that like their two martini lunches than those that smoke........
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Yes! (if you did not pay taxes in another state on those cigarettes)  In fact, California has sent bills to 12,000 taxpayers this year who purchased cigarettes over the internet and paid no sales tax.  This is not just cigarettes though- technically anything you buy over the internet or through the mail for which you are not taxed is taxable by California.  It's just too hard to track individual spending so only companies are subject to those rules- it's called a "use tax".
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May/June 1998\n\nBilingual Education and California's "English for the Children" Initiative: Researchers, Practitioners, and Policymakers Debate the Issues\n\nOn June 2, California voters will decide whether to eliminate bilingual education in their state. Proposition 227, also known as the "English for the Children" initiative or the Unz initiative after the name of its chief sponsor, proposes replacing current bilingual programs with a maximum of one year of "sheltered English immersion" (see "Models of Language Instruction"). In this case, parents would have to explicitly ask for their children to be placed in native-language programs.\n\nIf Proposition 227 passes, it could lead to a seismic shift in educating the nation's largest population of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. With 1.4 million LEP students in the state, California is home to nearly half of the nation's population of young English learners. In March 1998, the state board of education gave school districts local control of decisions about educating LEP students. However, if Proposition 227 passes, it would override any other provisions.\n\nIn an effort to advance the dialogue about how best to educate students who do not speak English, the Harvard Education Letter asked some key supporters and opponents of the California ballot initiative to share their perspectives:
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I think Del Mar already banned smoking, including sidewalks, beaches, and other outdoor public places.  Definitely other cities will follow suit, especially after the state of CA already classified 2nd hand smoke as a toxic substance.
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http://www.tamu.edu/ticc/   Check here, I'm about 50 miles SE of Abilene and the ban has been lifted in town but is still in effect outside of town. I think the site above has a map of burn ban areas
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no. not legal to drink yet....but i would never drink n drive
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No, because Mountain Dew is all about the caffeine buzz.\nThey do however make it in Diet.
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Try this link:\n\nhttp://www.louisbrailleschool.org/ban.pdf
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This is the only current information I could find for you.\n\nWhile the bill could still be changed right up until the vote, here is what the latest understanding of the bill is, which was released Friday. \n\nThere would be a policy that would not allow any restaurants to allow patrons under age 18 to smoke.\nThere would be no smoking in any place of employment, retail store, mall, bowling alley, sports arena, or outdoor county park.\nSmoking would be allowed in bars.  Also, any restaurant with a bar inside will be exempt from the ban, as long as the bar is physically separated with walls or doors.\n"That would allow places like Hacienda or Friday’s or whatever restaurant that might have a clearly separated bar and restaurant to allow smoking," explains County Councilman Andy Kostielney.\n\nAside from bars, smoking would also be allowed in any business that only allows patrons 18 and over, which includes tobacco shops, bingo and social halls, as well as private clubs.\n\nPunishment for not following the law \nIf the law is passed, and businesses do not obey, the punishments are as follows. \n\nA first offense gets only a verbal warning. \nThen, there will be a written warning for a second violation.\nBusiness owners will be slapped with a $100 fine for a third violation.\nAfter that, each additional violation would cost businesses $500.  \nLastly, the fourth will cost $200. \nMoney collected would go towards the county's enforcement of the ban.
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I found that Breath's website has the most information regarding the smoking laws in CA:\n\nhttp://www.smokefreeworld.com/calif.shtml
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Give it a try.  They (soda companies) pay schools big bucks to have only their type in the schools.
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I believe it has only been banned in the Olympics :)
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Not sure where you are from ... but the drinking laws in Michigan are quite strict... the problem isn't with enough laws it's with the lack of ability to enforce them.
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Oh My God how absolutely discusting to serve any level of alcohol to a child of that age. Do we not have enough alcoholics in this world without training our children to become one?? It is absolutely ridiculous that anyone would actually agree to doing a trial of this. What happened to good old fashioned water or milk?? These are both very healthy alternatives to sugary drinks such as cola and do not mean putting drugs( because thats what alcohol is, a drug) into a childs system.