No Smoking
Pasadena city government took a step closer Monday to enacting one of the nation's toughest anti-smoking laws.
Basically smokers will become pariahs on sidewalks, at ATMs, bus stops, and everywhere else in town that isn't the 210 Freeway.
Fred Ortega's filed a nice story summing up where the proposal stands, and has a blog entry on the subject too.
Others discussing it this a.m. include Aaron Proctor, Nosmoking Pasadena. I'll update this list as Google alerts me!
As for me, I'm still wondering how you enforce this sort of thing with an already understaffed police department. Are they enforcing laws against prostitution in the city's massage parlors?
Is the PD out there agressively arresting dope dealers? What about people who run red lights?
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It's "complaint based" which is funny - considering if you're hanging out a bar where they let you smoke (1881, Colorado, etc) - who is gonna complain?
I just feel bad because I know some of these peeps are just gonna call up on people who are annoying them and didn't ask them to put out their cigarette first...or people who walk by the 35er and are all super anti-smoking.
Stupid law.