No Smoking In Your Apartments!!

At least that’s what the city council in Richmond, CA is saying. Beginning January 1, 2011, there will be no more smoking in multi-unit housing like apartments and condominiums. Read below:

The Associated Press
Posted: 07/12/2009 03:09:58 PM PDT
Updated: 07/12/2009 03:09:59 PM PDT

RICHMOND, Calif.—City officials in Richmond are snuffing out smoking in apartments, condominiums and public places, making it the hardest place in the San Francisco Bay area to smoke.

The City Council approved an ordinance this month that will ban lighting up in all multiunit housing by Jan. 1, 2011. Officials say smoking in multiunit housing exposes people to secondhand smoke, which can travel between apartments.

The city has already banned smoking in parks, farmers markets and other public places. Fines start at $100 for violating the bans.

Richmond was given an “F” by the American Lung Association in January, which got city leaders to move quickly to enact tougher restrictions to discourage smoking and reduce secondhand smoke.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12822126

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1. 

   Jeff Borysiewicz says:

   July 17, 2009 at 3:44 pm

   This anti-tobacco, nanny state nonsense is getting out of hand. These anti-smoking laws have nothing to do with health and everything to do with lifestyle control.

   Read the facts about second hand smoke here http://tinyurl.com/ltpmhf

   and here, from the British Medical Journal

   http://www.heartland.org/custom/semod_policybot/pdf/23332.pdf

   Look at the summary on page 10 that states:

   “In a large study of Californians followed for 40 years, environmental tobacco smoke was not associated with coronary heart disease or lung cancer mortality at any level of exposure”

   Smokers are the only lifestyle group that has allowed this kind of discrimination to continue. What would the nationa’s reaction be if Richmond, CA banned gay men from sharing an apartment together for the fear of spreading AIDS?

   America needs to wake up and put an end to this nonsense. Our political leaders are working hard to strip away our freedoms that generations of Americans have died for trying to protect.

   Fight back and join Cigar Rights of America http://www.CigarRights.org
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   Bill says:

   July 19, 2009 at 5:48 pm

   These bans are stupid. Yeah, don’t smoke in your car with kids in it. But to not smoke in your home. How exactly are they going to enforce this? I’m glad I have my smokefree smoking alternative.