California Cities Ban Smoking at the Beach

Fox News Online ^ | 03/31/2004 | Unattributed

[VRWCmember]

LOS ANGELES

[VRWCmember]

But some smokers say there's an easy solution: creating 'smoking beaches' along the lines of nude beaches and dog-friendly beaches.

How about a beach for nude smokers with dogs.

[VRWCmember]

Pic from the article at Fox.

Hi Gabz. Thought you might find this article interesting. Ping your friends.

[glorgau]

Can you barbeque at the beach with a personal tabacco briquette?

[VRWCmember]

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[Puppage]

California Cities Ban Smoking at the Beach

But not sodomy on the street corner of San Francisco...go figure.

[Digger]

Advocates cite health hazards and problems with litter as the main reasons behind the ban.

Why don't we send these do-gooders down at the border & see the mess these ILLEGALS have made.

[GrandEagle]

I thought this was a joke at first.
From the left coast....

[Gabz]

Thanks for the Ping, Vast!!!!!

Heads up everyone!!!!!!!!!!!

[VRWCmember]

I don't know about that, but maybe some of Homer Simpson's Tomacco sauce would be good on the barbecue.

[commish]

Sounds to me like a huge moneymaking opportunity for some daring Entrepreneur.

Time to start working on plans for the "Santa Barbara Can Kiss my *SS Smokers Beach Club"

[VRWCmember]

thought this was a joke at first.

No, as far as I know the only joke is the one I made about the smoker's suggested solution by combining the three "specialty" beaches into one.

[Just another Joe]

"This is a public area that we're trying to protect for the public and protect against the harmful effects of secondhand smoke."

He just HAD to get that part in there. SHS OUTSIDE, for cripes sake.

It's going to come down to "shoot the smoker" eventually.
Better stock up on ammo and smokes now, before it's too late.

[Wright is right!]

"I thought this was a joke at first. From the left coast...."

Back when some loony first proposed it in 1986, it WAS ridiculed as a nutcase idea. Some idiot wanted all of Del Mar to be smokefree outside, including beaches.

The nazis have really taken over out there.

Michael

[VRWCmember]

and protect against the harmful effects of secondhand smoke."

He just HAD to get that part in there. SHS OUTSIDE, for cripes sake.

I knew that someone would pick up on that pretty quickly.

[Madame Dufarge]

But some smokers say there's an easy solution: creating 'smoking beaches' along the lines of nude beaches and dog-friendly beaches.

Sound like a great idea, a no-whiner zone.

[Gabz]

Better stock up on ammo and smokes now, before it's too late.

My tobacco seeds arrived last week....I've already got them started in flats.

[DumpsterDiver]

Santa Monica, San Clemente and Solana Beach have banned lighting up on the sand.

Rent a raft, paddle out past the breakers and then light up! Remember, though, never blow any smoke in the direction of the sand.

[SheLion]

Good lord. This was on Fox News all damn day yesterday. Seems that smokers are once again, in the news..........Smokers are going to get pretty fed up with all this BS before very long!

[GrandEagle]

We have some nuts over here that would do it if they could figure out how to blame the deaths of the single footed, read crowned, nesting sea terns (or any other goofball animal either read of imagined) of smoke.
I don't think it would fly far just because it is obnoxious to humans.

[mtbopfuyn]

We were on a beach in Florida for about 3 minutes until it was obvious there were more cig butts than sand. I'd never seen such. It was as if a restraunt or other business had used that beach to dump their butts daily for quite some time. It was disgusting.