Oakland Restricts Smoking In Outdoor Areas

[roscoe]

NBC11.com
Oakland Restricts Smoking In Outdoor Areas

POSTED: 6:02 am PDT October 17, 2007
UPDATED: 7:55 am PDT October 17, 2007
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Officials in Oakland have passed new rules putting restrictions on where smokers can light up.

The Oakland City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday that makes it illegal to smoke in outdoor dining areas, ATM lines, parks and bus stops.

Smoking will also be banned in child care centers and municipal golf courses.

Besides prohibiting smoking in some areas, the new rules will require landlords and condominium owners to notify prospective tenants and buyers of the smoking status of units they intend to move into.

The new law will go in effect on Oct. 23.

Oakland's ordinance follows a new law adopted last week in Belmont that will ban smoking in parks, other public places and inside apartments and condominiums.

 

[MoeCizlak]

Municipal golf courses? Are you kidding me?

If it truly is about health, then shouldn't they ban eating of trans fat laden foods in public places? This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

 

[NorCalCigarLover]

Help!, I feel my world closing in on me ???

 

[MiamiCubano]

Absolute nonsense.

 

[regor1]

It's time to gather up all these assholes, take them all to Florida, saw it off from the rest of the states and float it and them out to sea.....

 

["K"]

Why do they keep throwing us in with cigarette smokers?!

 

[rawrr]

I live in San Francisco, but I am not allowed to smoke in my rented place, so I can only smoke outdoor in Berkeley, the place where I go to school.

Pls forgive my ignorance, and would some ppl pls enlight me that is Berkeley a part of Oakland which will also be affect by this new smoking ban?

 

[antaean]

Smoking will also be banned in ... municipal golf courses.

Wait...I can't breathe...

OK, if they ban smoking altogether, doesn't someone have to buy all of my cigars? or at least COMPENSATE me for damages caused to me? as opposed to damage that I might be causing others from my cigars that has not happened yet because I haven't smoked them?

Cheers,
antaean

 

[ALostTexan]

Total BS. In your apartment is even more bizarre than on the golf course. That is your home, and what you do in your should be your own business...

 

[khari]

Total BS. In your apartment is even more bizarre than on the golf course. That is your home, and what you do in your should be your own business...

Technically, it's theirs and you're just paying them for the use of said apartment, but I understand completely where you're coming from. Golf courses really gets me though.

 

[ALostTexan]

Total BS. In your apartment is even more bizarre than on the golf course. That is your home, and what you do in your should be your own business...

Technically, it's theirs and you're just paying them for the use of said apartment, but I understand completely where you're coming from. Golf courses really gets me though.

And I agree with you 100%. And, if the apartment complex wants to ban smoking in "their" apartments, I am totally fine with that. Just another way that the government wants to interfere with the operation of private businesses...