San Jose council snuffs out smoking at city parks

[Newsjock]

Source: San Jose Mercury News

Lighting up a cigarette in the middle of a San Jose park will soon be illegal.

In a lopsided 10-1 vote, the San Jose City Council on Tuesday approved a ban on smoking in its 160 parks. The new law, which also applies to people smoking inside their cars or walking on the sidewalk at city parks, goes into effect in about a month.

"I think we ought to eliminate cigarettes all together," said councilman Forrest Williams. "Let's just get rid of them."

Councilman Pete Constant was the lone dissenter on Tuesday, suggesting that the fumes from a barbecue pit in a park are just as damaging as second-hand cigarette smoke.

"I don't smoke," said Constant, a retired police officer. "But I think this ordinance is a bad idea. It is really hard for me to see how someone sitting on a bench at Cesar Chavez Park, staying to themselves, is harming anyone."

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_7260313

[soothsayer]

1. Soon only outlaws will have cigarettes.

[liberal renegade]

2. what the fuck ever!

[Bonobo]

3. Health nazis. n/t

[stirlingsliver]

4. Good.

Cigarette smoking is s filthy, disgusting addiction.

It should not be done in public.

Good for the San Jose City Council.

[soothsayer]

6. Aaaack! Even cigars? I mean GOOD cigars.

[stirlingsliver]

8. Don't Get Me Started.

Do NOT get me started on the subject of cigars.

Just don't.

[soothsayer]

10. How about snuff? The kind you sniff. Like the apricot stuff from Germany.

That ok?

[stirlingsliver]

11. What Happens To The Snuff?

Don't people who sniff snuff sneeze?

What happens to the sniff snuff when the person sneezes?

If it goes into the atmosphere, then I say "No" to sniffed snuff.

Even the apricot stuff from Germany.

[soothsayer]

13. Wow, you're tough! Not even snuff sniffers' snuff is good enough.

[Raine]

12. I agree

:thumbsup:

[mark414]

5. laws based on emotion instead of fact

god bless america!

[Noonecares]

7. In a couple days..

In a couple of days, The rest of CA will be not smoking anymore either.

[americanstranger]

9. I was in San Jose on sunday. Nice town.

Had dinner at Original Joe's and pints afterwards at Trials Pub.

I didn't go to any of their 160 parks, and sure wouldn't want to start if this law went into effect.

- as

PS: Forrest Williams seems to be a dick. that Constant guy's got it right.