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All four smoking ban bills were killed in a House sub-committee yesterday.

UPDATE: A commenter at WOTBN notes that the House merely killed the House versions of the bills:

The RTD isn’t quite right. The House killed the House bills tonight. The Senate bills (the ones that passed on Tuesday) have yet to be heard in the House. So, 9 of the 13 are gone for good, but 4 are still alive. I expect they’ll meet the same fate, but the RTD shouldn’t report them as dead quite yet.

Of further note, Tyler Whitley’s little editorial aside in the brief wasn’t really necessary:

The Virginia Senate had approved the bans but the House — continuing its anti-government streak — rejected a series of bills designed to limit smoking. — Tyler Whitley

“Anti-government streak”? What does that even mean?

UPDATE x2: “A commenter” from above isn’t just any commenter but is Cathleen from Smoke Free Virginia Now.