Posted on 11/24/2013 7:18:15 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A California ordinance that prohibits smoking in residences with shared walls may be the strictest anti-smoking law in the United States, city officials say.
The ban, passed by the city of San Rafael, applies to both owners and renters, ABC News reported Thursday.
It covers any multi-family residence with three or more units, including condominiums, co-ops and apartments. The ban took effect Nov. 14.
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Tobacco....BAD. Weed....GOOD.
You have to understand that weed smoke is a good medicine while tobacco smoke is DEADLY!
Enough said................
/sarc
you aren’t really trying to tell people that a cigarete can contaminate from one apartment to another are you???PLEASE
This hysteria has gotten way out of hand.
I once thought your comments regrettable, then repugnant, then despicable, then sociopathic, then psychopathic.
I have no adjective to describe this one.
The "market" has been saturated with hysteria.
It’s about bringing down “big tobacco,” an industry primarily situated in “red states.” Money needs to be taken out of the hands of any industry who supports Republicans.
Top Ten Tobacco Producing States
State Total Tobacco Acreage
1. North Carolina 170,083
2. Kentucky 87,641
3. Virginia 20,881
4. Tennessee 20,109
5. South Carolina 20,084
6. Georgia 17,989
7. Pennsylvania 7,886
8. Ohio 3,499
9. Connecticut 3,128
10. Indiana 2,174
Then they all must be saved from themselves. /sarc
Shouldn’t it still be a system where you take it up with the landlord? If enough of you let him know you’re sick of the smoke, he should consider making the building smoke-free.
Don’t worry about Drango. He has somehow come to the conclusion that a child’s exposure to secondhand smoke is somehow equivalent to a fate worse than death being visited upon that child.
To him, all advocates for smokers’ rights might as well be a gaggle of Jerry Sanduskys.
Well it’s still bad.
Oh no! I’ve upset the addicts...my bad.
“If majority voters don’t like the law. but don’t lift a finger to elect lawmakers who will repeal the law, then voters can quit smoking or face the consequences.”
We now have FReepers advocating the tyranny of the majority. What a sad state of affairs we find ourselves in.
“apartment filled with cigarette smoke from the next apartment.”
When I lived in an apartment, I hated the smell of some of the foods some of my neighbors cooked. We shoul ban the cooking of such offensively smelling foods!
Who could imagine that apartment dwellers would have to deal with inconveniences caused by living in close quarters!
"This... [is] a country where the will of the majority is the law, and ought to be the law." --Thomas Jefferson: Answers to de Meusnier Questions, 1786.
“Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable;...the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression”
Thomas Jefferson, in his first inagural address, 1801
The only way that I can see that minorities can be protected is constitutionally enumerated rights. Do you have any insights on minority protections?
You are saying that as if the “minority” reference is to a class of persons. It is not. Yes I know exactly the framers intent in “how” to protect the rights of folks that are in the minority. It is called private property rights.
Of course the intent of smoking bans is to trample private property rights into nonexistence. It has been so successful that even “conservatives” cheer for it.
No, you have upset the advocates of liberty.
Deal with it.
The Constitution does not enumerate rights. It enumerates the powers of government.
Rights are what you have by being human.
if you can afford 5-10$ per pack cigarettes, you can afford to buy your own house.
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