City of Ithaca targets secondhand smoke (wants to ban smoking outdoors too)

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[Behind Liberal Lines]

ITHACA — Legislation further restricting smoking in the City of Ithaca should reduce exposure to secondhand smoke while not creating unintended consequences, according to members of the Smoke-free Zone Legislation Subcommittee.

The smoking ban legislation Common Council is exploring includes ... a huge variety of outdoor, public spaces, including parks, natural areas, outdoor concerts and festivals, trails and walkways, parking garages and lots, transit shelters, Newman Golf Course, and city cemeteries.

This would include outdoor dining areas at all times, and entire parks or the entire Commons during festivals like Ithaca Festival or the Chili Cook-Off....

It could also include any area where people are standing in line....

The subcommittee will likely submit its report by July or August, he said.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I'm not a smoker, and I actually appreciate the ban on smoking indoors. But banning smoking outdoors is getting a little crazy.

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil bump:

[y6162]

Second hand smoke hoax was the precursor to global warming. The “science” underlying second hand smoke is a fraud as well. Both are just an excuse to exercise power.

[atomic conspiracy]

Can’t we gin up some research showing second-hand brain damage from large concentrations of old hippie burn-outs?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I wonder what will happen the first time some hippie lights up a joint at a music festival? Will he or she get charged too?

[weegee]

When is the ban on patchuli oil coming for Ithica’s hippies?

Why should I have to breathe it?

[Just another Joe]

Some of us warned people.
We TOLD people this was coming.
No one seemed to want to listen.

I have no sympathy. I don't smoke anymore but I still want personal property to be just that - personal property with the right to allow, or disallow, using a legal product as it was intended to be used.

If it's public property, as in property owned by the city, then let the city decide.

Otherwise, keep your nose out of my property if you don't like the way it smells.

[weegee]

[Vigilanteman]

Will they ban farting outdoors next?

[captjanaway]

Wish we could, but who do you think comes up with all these other “studies”??? If it was so bad, why not make tobacco an illegal substance?

Oh, yeah...... too much tax revenue to ban it completely....

[arderkrag]

Banning smoking indoors is crazy! It should be up to the property owner whether or not to allow smoking.

[weegee]

This would include outdoor dining areas at all times, and entire parks or the entire Commons during festivals like ...the Chili Cook-Off....

Next the vegan community will demand that the public cooking of meat be brought to a halt.

[Glenn]

You have a problem with billionaires?

[aruanan]

Can’t we gin up some research showing second-hand brain damage from large concentrations of old hippie burn-outs?

Well, the hippies were a subgroup of the mental aberration that gives rise to leftist/socialist/Democrat politicians and we already know the damage that these guys have done to the country.

[atomic conspiracy]

Eegad! It’s worse than I thought!

[Sacajaweau]

You're quite right on the "hoax". This smoking thing is nothing more than "absurdly taxed" prohibition.

Ah, for the good old days of Virginia when Tobacco was actually used as a currency.

[Gabz]

Nanny State PING!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[BnBlFlag]

Of course smoking grass will be exempt from the smoking ban.

[atomic conspiracy]

I went to Cornell for a year in the seventies. It wasn’t so bad then. It was infested with weirdos and hippies, of course, but the key difference is that they weren’t running the place yet.

I got to take astronomy with the great Frank Drake, founder of SETI and originator of the famous Drake equation. His much better known colleague, Carl Sagan, was regarded as a lightweight in those days in spite of his budding media career (or perhaps because of it). Like me, and unlike Sagan, Dr. Drake is a veteran.