Belmont to be first U.S. city to ban all smoking

[LightHeart]

This is so extreme, and I am getting real sick of the government dictating what we can and can't do.

"Belmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else.
The Belmont City Council voted unanimously last night to pursue a strict law that will prohibit smoking anywhere in the city except for single-family detached residences. Smoking on the street, in a park and even in one’s car will become illegal and police would have the option of handing out tickets if they catch someone".


http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=66988

[Franklin]

Hi LightHeart,

It figures it would be in Northern California. This fanatical anti-smoking stuff is bordering on fascism. Many towns forbid outdoor smoking with 15 feet of a public doorway. So I figure a smoker will have to light up in the middle of the street. Then they're be run over and counted as yet one more smoking-related death.

How do they know how many people die from smoking? And especially second hand smoke? I would think one would need to be in smoke-filled meeting rooms (remember those?) all day every to die from it. I don't think walking past a smoker outside a couple times a day would have any effect at all.

[LightHeart]

Hi Franklin, hope you are doing well.

I swear I have never heard anything so absurd. One can't smoke in their own car???, You can bet if I spend 50,000 for a car I am going to do any damn thing I want in that car.

What is it going to take for these people to focus on the important things, like the homeless and the hungry?

BTW let me use this post to plug The National Coalition for the Homeless

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/