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California Smoking Ban Said to Be Most Stringent in U.S.
Big Government (Breitbart) ^ | November 22, 2013 | UPI

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: California
KEYWORDS: antitobaccoscam; followthemoney; nannystate; niconazis; pufflist; sanrafael; scam; smokingban; smokingiscool
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Tobacco....BAD. Weed....GOOD.

You have to understand that weed smoke is a good medicine while tobacco smoke is DEADLY!

Enough said................

/sarc


21 posted on 11/25/2013 5:10:16 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: terycarl

you aren’t really trying to tell people that a cigarete can contaminate from one apartment to another are you???PLEASE


You aren’t really trying to tell people that cigarette smoke can’t travel between apartments are you??? PLEASE


22 posted on 11/25/2013 8:39:29 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This hysteria has gotten way out of hand.


23 posted on 11/25/2013 1:12:04 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Drango
I bet they let you molest children where you live.

I once thought your comments regrettable, then repugnant, then despicable, then sociopathic, then psychopathic.

I have no adjective to describe this one.

24 posted on 11/25/2013 1:16:26 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Age of Reason
Let the market decide.

The "market" has been saturated with hysteria.

25 posted on 11/25/2013 1:23:10 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: 2banana

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


26 posted on 11/25/2013 1:40:13 PM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: Age of Reason
What if all the tenants in the building smoke?

Then they all must be saved from themselves. /sarc

27 posted on 11/25/2013 3:07:50 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: chessplayer

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.


28 posted on 11/25/2013 3:16:00 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: elkfersupper; Drango

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.


29 posted on 11/25/2013 3:19:08 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well it’s still bad.


30 posted on 11/25/2013 3:21:15 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; elkfersupper

Oh no! I’ve upset the addicts...my bad.


31 posted on 11/25/2013 5:38:28 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Amendment10

“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.


32 posted on 11/26/2013 10:15:39 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: chessplayer

“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!


33 posted on 11/26/2013 10:17:26 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: CSM; All
We now have FReepers advocating the tyranny of the majority. What a sad state of affairs we find ourselves in.

"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.

34 posted on 11/26/2013 11:43:15 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

“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


35 posted on 11/26/2013 12:09:37 PM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: CSM; All
“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”

The only way that I can see that minorities can be protected is constitutionally enumerated rights. Do you have any insights on minority protections?

36 posted on 11/26/2013 12:52:02 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

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.


37 posted on 11/26/2013 1:26:19 PM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Drango
Oh no! I’ve upset the addicts...my bad.

No, you have upset the advocates of liberty.

Deal with it.

38 posted on 11/26/2013 5:16:50 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Amendment10
The only way that I can see that minorities can be protected is constitutionally enumerated rights. Do you have any insights on minority protections?

The Constitution does not enumerate rights. It enumerates the powers of government.

Rights are what you have by being human.

39 posted on 11/26/2013 5:23:18 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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.

if you can afford 5-10$ per pack cigarettes, you can afford to buy your own house.

40 posted on 11/26/2013 6:43:04 PM PST by terycarl (common sense rules overall)
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