If you think this is an isolated incident, this is one of the topics at the newsletter!
Litter? There are already litter laws... etc... like from the conference notes:
If you think this is an isolated incident, this is one of the topics at the newsletter!
Litter? There are already litter laws... etc... like from the conference notes:
Ping for an FYI on another beach in Maine.
Aye-yuh!
Maine is just another nanny state. Every day the Baldacci types are taking away basic rights that people used to have so that people will be controlled like a Hitler run regieme.
On the other hand, Maine taxes are the highest in the country, especially cigatette texes. The Indian tribes could make a bundle selling cigarettes without state taxes if they would take advantage of the situation. No doubt Baldacci would try to supress indian cig sales if they did.
Well, maybe a bit about health? There've been a couple of times at the beach when I've stepped on a lit cigarette and burned my foot. I can't believe I'm the only one.
Perhaps you're one of the very few responsible smokers who carry out your butts. Being a former smoker I know that the vast majority of smokers merely snuff them out and bury them in the sand.
I'm glad that Maine enacted this ordinance. I hope the whole country follows suit.
I am not against smokers, just the obnoxious, toxic substance that they expel from their lungs into the faces of others.
Unless you can confine your smoke such that it does not impinge on the rights of others, your so-called smoking rights end where the noses of others begin.
BUMP
Put a badge on some people and they think their God....like the libs....I have always thought that Maine was a pretty state....been there often...they have some of the best seafood in the world...guess I won't be going there now...and I don't smoke...
I agree with you're sentiments, but it is not nice to directly link to pics on other people's websites.
Smokers are being harrassed all over the place by all kinds of people in authority. They just can't leave us alone!
If you notice in the above picture, there is NO ONE sitting by the family.
bttt
Trying to help ... if they can't take a joke ... (fill in blank here) ;-)
Sounds like something worth taking to court. Just my view.
Awful, sheesh, this is why I hate it when taxpayers buy all the parklands....then the state can make it illegal to do anything considered politically correct.
Why are you not equally concerned with the ban on bikes. Oh..they are not affecting you. Smokers have only one selfish interest when it comes to screaming about rights.
It is the towns ordinance.
http://www.winthropmaine.org/vertical/Sites/%7B46AE0912-004A-4267-BB56-098B44708FA1%7D/uploads/%7B3C7BC8AB-3EE9-4C3D-AEF7-BACFCA90A0F7%7D.PDF
Don't towns have the ability to determine where smoking is allowed?
Smoking on the beach is stupid.
The reason most people are there is to enjoy the *fresh* air, sunshine, and water.