But illegal aliens using gas-powered leaf blowers on the grounds of such complexes is acceptable?
The two council members against the ordinance were just afraid that long term smoking tenants in rent controlled apartments would be harassed by their landlords so as to free up the unit so that new tenants paying higher rents could move in.
So exactly none of the council members was concerned about the freedom of people to do what they want in the privacy of their own homes.
They equated smoking with keeping a house so untidy that it drew rats, or playing music so loud in your house that it could be heard outside.
They are all deathly afraid of 2nd hand smoke.
Don't even get them started on 3rd hand smoke!
Smokers are rebellious. Must crush rebellion. /s Mexifornia will be the first 100% government-operated State. First, all private sector businesses and most cities must declare bankruptcy due to stifling over-regulation. That’s well on it’s way.
No smoking, eh?
Does that include marijuana and crack?
The “ Peoples Republic of Santa Monica “ martin sheen country.
This should be fun to watch.
Who would have thought such things could happen in the peoples republic of Santa Monica?
wouldn’t a penumbra of an emanation make that an invasion of privacy that inhibits a persons right to choose to smoke?
Any hints on how this will be enforced? Other than this declaration nonsense by the apt/condo owner?
declare the Santa Monica city council as obviously “aliens to America and it’s principals” and deport them to the utopian paradise of their choice
Why any freedom-loving American continues to live in CA is a mystery to me. You could not pay me enough to live there.
Nanny state pingaroonie!
“There’s nothing left of Santa Monica Pier.
Arizona stands as the the New Frontier.
California is falling..into the ocean.”
(100 Flowers (1983))
I wonder if Santa Monica is next on the CA bankruptcy list.
5.56mm
Would firing up a joint be illegal? I have a prescription.
Nanny State PING!
Well in situations like this, I just lie. Flat out lie. “Are you a smoker?” No.
No government control freak is going to tell me what I can do in my own home be it a rental unit or private home. That simple. Go ahead, throw me in jail. I want to be the first smoker tossed in jail in our so called “Free” country. I dare them.
Then again I was smart enough to move away from Kalifornistan in 2003 and there are so many smokers in Nevada that I dont have much to worry about. Even the “ban” they passed here is largely ignored in most places.