Reasons to Stop Smoking: California City Considers First Outdoor Smoking Ban
[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Smoking Ban, Secondhand Smoke on December 22nd, 2008 ]
In 1990, San Luis Obispo set a trend that many states followed soon, when it was the first city in the U.S. to enforce a smoking ban in public buildings, that included bars and restaurants. Now it is considering putting a stop to smoking outdoors.
This ordinance may potentially not only ban smoking in parks and on playgrounds, but it may include sidewalks and streets. In other words: any public place.
The city receives many complaints about secondhand smoke and litter from cigarette butts.
Mayor Dave Romero and the city council will bounce around ideas in the spring or early summer of 2009.
Will San Luis Obispo once again be setting the pace for the rest of the country?
- Franc Tausch, PhD, CCHT
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