San Francisco Bars Smoking in Its Parks =your home is next

ap ^ | Tue, Jan 25, 2005 | Adam Tanner

[Flavius]

dont smoke, but this is so scary

[Dekan]

Just a matter of time before its caffeine, sugar, fat...

[Flavius]

smokeless powder

[exnavychick]

Ping!

[ElkGroveDan]

You don't want to know what is legal in San Francisco Parks.

[BikerNYC]

First it was no drinking, then no smoking. What's next? No gambling?

[Tall_Texan]

"It was so cold two dogs were stuck to the same fire hydrant."

- Johnny Carson 1925-2005

[Citizen James]

I don't smoke either... but SF is playing God in a major way. I can only hope that this will help facilitate a backlash against these insane liberal policies. A LOT of people smoke in SF too...

I'd be surprised if this covers pot smoke too, since in SF, it is practically encouraged. There's a place in Golden Gate Park called "Hippie Hill." It ALWAYS wreaks of pot. I'd bet that this will not affect that place.

[conservative cat]

They let bums defecate in public, but smoking is banned? (I don't smoke either)

[Eurotwit]

sad

[elli1]

So it's now safe for the kiddoes to play in SF parks?

[umgud]

What if you have a prescription for marijuana?

[mrfixit514]

I've already banned smoking in my home.

You bunch of drama queens.

This is so scary

Not as scary as dying a slow painful death from a disease that you could have easily prevented.

[Dog Gone]

The government is going to mandate that you live until 90, and then Social Security will really be in trouble.

[Ticonderoga34]

San Francisco is also the city that is going to tax the evil plastic grocery bags.

In Ohio, anti-smoking advocates today came out for a 75 cent increase on a pack of cigarettes.

A thought occurred to me today. If these nuts have the time to go after smoking (again),evil plastic bags and other assorted trivial things then life in America must be pretty good.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

All those taxes paid by the smokers (I'm one) and no representation! Where is it going to stop? Cigarettes are not illegal, damn it!

[Ticonderoga34]

I'm a smoker too so I feel your pain.

Actually, I optimistic. I think that people will get fed up with this nanny state nonsense and there will be a backlash against these busybody's health Nazis who like to tell everyone how to live their lives.

[thoughtomator]

Smokers are to liberals as Jews are to Nazis. It's only a matter of time before it is criminalized, to be followed shortly thereafter by "zero-tolerance" policies which know no lawful bounds.

[Ticonderoga34]

Liberals will want to legalize drugs and outlaw cigarettes.

Now that's logical. /sarcasm off.

[Gorzaloon]

Asked if San Francisco might one day move in that direction, Alioto-Pier said: "I think that if any city in the country is a city to ban smoking on sidewalks and stoops it would probably be San Francisco, but we will just have to wait and see."

San Francisco MORAL DILEMMA:

What to do...If the Homeless is smoking a cigarette while publicly crapping on the sidewalk?