CHICAGO:
Dropping a curtain on stage smokers City aldermen won't let actors light up in the line of duty

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what next? would a seditious book with these lines be banned:

I took a sip from my second martini, feeling as decadent as one of those jazz piano players who smoke a lot and drinks a lot and are found dead in a gutter at the end of every film.


Chicago's new laws:

1) large dogs are deemed dangerous, ART INSTITUTE told to cover all graven images of Large Dogs in paintings and sculpture and all works of art. Mayor announces ban on yellow t-shirts, color yellow ban in art sought by City Council

2) Police dept split up, traditional ticket giving police and the NEW CHICAGO MINISTRY OF VICE AND VIRTUE PATROL (eating foie gras penalty: Death by stoning)

3) several large statues of Budha like figures have been discovered in Wicker Park, there is a reward for information leading to the artists involved, contact Ayatolla One-eye at the Chicago Police Dept 312-555-vice

The police are pleased to announce the capture and re-branding of 13 creative writing students engaged in blasphemy.get the idea, no?

well, impossible??:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/health/chi-0705042052may05,1,1285317.story

Dropping a curtain on stage smokers City aldermen won't let actors light up in the line of duty

By Dan Mihalopoulos and Azam AhmedTribune staff reporters
Published May 5, 2007

During the recent Chicago production of the classic play "Twelve Angry Men," George Wendt and other actors portraying the bickering, deadlocked jurors lit up cigarettes on the stage of the LaSalle Bank Theatre.

In following the play's script, the actors violated the city's anti-smoking ordinance.

This clash between art and public-health concerns became fodder for Chicago's aldermen Friday, as a City Council panel considered -- then rejected -- a proposal to create a loophole in the ban so actors can smoke on stage.Ald. Burton Natarus (42nd), proposed the exemption at the behest of Lou Raizin, president of Broadway in Chicago.

The group presented the recent run of "Twelve Angry Men" and a long list of other works that have brought clouds of smoke to stages at downtown theaters.

Forbidding actors to smoke in cases where the playwright would have wanted them to puff away amounts to "asking an artist to change his art," Raizin told members of the council's Buildings Committee at City Hall.

Committee members voted 4-2 against the ordinance granting an exemption for actors who smoke in the line of duty.