City to extend smoking ban

Los Angeles took another step toward banning smoking in public Wednesday, adopting a measure to prohibit smoking in outdoor patio areas, outdoor food courts and around mobile food trucks. Daily News.

"As a non-smoker, I would have to pass through these smoking areas and it always bothered me," Councilman Greig Smith said. "I wondered why we didn't do more to control this. If it bothered me, I wondered what it would do to young children."