Banning cigarettes - at home.
Say hello to Berkeley, CA's latest power grab -- from the
San Francisco Gate:
Berkeley's next smoking ban may hit home
Berkeley, where residents take pride in exercising their personal freedoms and resisting government intrusion, is the site these days of a much different kind of movement - one to ban cigarette smoking from single-family homes.
A City Council member says a proposal to ban cigarette smoking in apartments and condos, where smoke can waft through ventilation systems, is not tough enough or fair. Councilman Jesse Arreguin says his fellow council members should consider expanding the proposed ban to include single-family homes where children, seniors or lodgers are present.
Cigarette smoking is already prohibited in Berkeley's commercial districts, parks and bus stops, and within 25 feet of any building open to the public, and the council plans to extend the ban to all apartments, condominiums and other multiunit buildings where secondhand smoke can spread.
But if Berkeley is really serious about protecting nonsmokers, it should ban smoking in the specified single-family homes as well, Arreguin argues in a proposal to toughen the proposed law.
And of course, nobody remembers that the initial EPA report on second hand smoke was based on cherry-picked data and junk science. All of the campaigns against second hand smoke are based on this initial 1993 paper and therefore flawed. Read more
here and
here.
Posted by DaveH at November 15, 2013 4:39 PM