Posted on 03/18/2010 10:54:19 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California lawmakers on Thursday will consider what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks as a way to get unsightly cigarette butts off the beach, eliminate second-hand smoke and reduce the threat of wildfires.
Maine banned smoking at its state beaches last year, but groups that track such legislation say no state prohibits lighting up throughout its entire park system, as the California bill proposes.
Under a legislative compromise, campsites and parking areas will be exempted from the ban.
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Why don’t they just ban people from the State Parks. Just think how much money they would save. Let the parks go back to nature......That’s what they want isn’t it? Maybe they could only let DeemOcrats in the Parks and charge them accordingly.
You mean this isn’t in the health care bill? It’s nice to see the California power brokers working hard to bring businesses back to Calif. to stimulate job growth. This outta help. (sarcasm)
Uh-oh.. What’s an ARSONIST to do? LOL
Brought to you by the same incompetent jerks who have refued to balance the state budget for years.
Yep, our legislators really have their priorities straight!
Who’s going to take the cigs away from the Bears? ;-)
“Brought to you by the same incompetent jerks who have refued to balance the state budget for years.”
They should just consider it done...they are DEEMocrats.
They should ban smoking on the Moon while they are at it.
It will be a tobacco ban only, not Meth.
Enough is enough, to hell with this crap, try to find a ranger to arrest me!
Just wait until they ban consuming non-diet soda on Park Land.
All these draconian laws were never about smoking.
Embrace the slick slope.....
No worries. I’ve got a prescription for Medical Tobacco.
The jihad against second-hand smoke makes the warmist distortions of scientific evidence look minimal by comparison.
what next?
No dogs allowed.
ban smoklng but easy pot. That’s the california way.
I smoke cigars.
Every time I blog with Cigar Aficionado, I get upset that they promote liberalism by way of putting liberals on it’s covers and articles calling for free trade with Cuba. In response, those fools get upset with me.
The magazine promotes the very idiots who try to limit smokers. Then they decry that here in California, it’s getting tough to find outdoor places to smoke. Does this make sense to anybody? This is why I no longer subscribe to them.
I support this. If they ban campfires and other types of open combustion in State Parks, they should also ban the combustion of cigars, cigarettes, etc.
What I don’t support is smoking bans on PRIVATE property.
That has always seemed backward to me.
It didn’t pass. Lost by 2 votes. Proponents vow to keep trying.
On another note, nobody cares what bs laws the commissars pass. Let them enforce it...
The town where I work passed a ban on all outdoor smoking in public places within the city limits. I have not noticed any decrease in that activity.
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