Thank You For Not Smoking Anywhere at All in Hermosa Beach

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Things are getting rough for smokers in Hermosa Beach -- a new ordinance has banned them from sucking down their beloved carcinogens in any outdoor place that people congregate, according to the Daily Breeze.

The new regulation, which was approved by the town's City Council in a 4-0 vote on Tuesday night, is expected to go into effect on March 1, 2012. Violators would be fined between $100 and $500, and would be slapped with an administrative violation, not a misdemeanor or infraction.

The Breeze reports that the ban is fairly broad-reaching:

Under the new ordinance, smoking will now be prohibited in all outdoor dining areas, Pier Plaza, the Pier and the Strand, public parks and the Greenbelt between Valley Drive and Ardmore Avenue, all public parking lots and within five feet of any outdoor dining area or city-owned building. Restaurants will also be banned from distributing match books, a long-practiced marketing trend that city officials say promotes cigarette smoking.

Hermosa Beach already has extensive bans on smoking, including at bars and restaurants. A number of business owners came to the City Council meeting to oppose the ban, saying that it would hurt their livelihoods.

"This could be the beginning of the end of a lot of businesses down there," Pier Plaza restaurateur Gary Vincent told the Breeze. "It's basically sending a message that if you smoke, we don't want you coming into Hermosa Beach."

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By Jessica Pauline Ogilvie in News on October 27, 2011 10:00 AM 0 Comments

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j_jonik

The other side of this coin.
Thank you (complicit officials and cigarette cartel members) for packing typical cigarettes with toxic and cancer causing pesticide residues.

Thank you for the cancer-causing, endocrine-disrupting, immune-suppressing dioxins that come from cigarettes still legally contaminated with A) chlorine pesticide residues and B) chlorine-bleached paper.

Thank you for the cancer-causing radiation that comes to unwitting smokers from the Still Legal use of PO-210-contaminated phosphate tobacco fertilizers.

Thank you for the effects of any of about 1400 non-tobacco additives from which cigarette makers concoct their secret recipes.

Thank you for keeping that information from the public that pays you (public officials) for protecting us from exactly such industrial harms.

Thank you for blaming un-informed smokers for the effects of that.

Thank you for smoker's diseases that could not possibly be caused by smoke from any natural plant, even "evil" tobacco...but that are known effects of industrial substances that contaminated most cigarettes.

Search up "Faxbacco", or any of the relevant terms noted above, for references.

j_jonik

Thank YOU, public officials, for not warning about or doing anything about highly toxic and cancer-causing non-tobacco cigarette adulterants.
Thanks for not telling your constituents about the residues of any of over 400 tobacco pesticides, virtually all which are toxic or cancer-causing.
Thanks again for doing absolutely nothing about cigarettes sold (and taxed) as if they were tobacco but which may not contain any actual tobacco at all.
Thank you very much for not warning anyone about the dioxins coming from typical cigarettes that contain chlorine pesticide residues AND chlorine-bleached paper. (Did you forget Agent Orange and other dioxin atrocities?)
Thanks a lot for not doing or saying a thing about the cancer-causing levels of radiation in typical cigarettes that come from Still Legal use of certain phosphate tobacco fertilizers.
Thank you for blaming deceived, secretly-poisoned, insufficiently warned, Guinea-pigged, and even dead smokers for the effects of all that.

[ Search any of the points by simple use of the relevant terms. No secret. Just ignored....for, you know, "economic" reasons. ]

Bernie

And why aren't cigarettes just outright made illegal? The stink. They cause lung cancer. They are littered everywhere. What's the good part?!

Economist2011

Good riddance. Smokers are a bunch of slobs. I'm so tired of smokers using the beach as a giant ashtray despite all the anti-littering laws. That goes for the freeways too...they flick their butts out the window because they know they will never get caught.