Buellton City Council (CA) gives first approval to bill that bans smoking and e-cigarette use at many outdoor areas

[Bill Godshall]

Buellton City Council (CA) gives first approval to bill that bans smoking and e-cigarette use in many outdoor areas
Santa Ynez Valley Journal | Second-hand smoke measure in the works

Trina Long, health educator with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, . . . , also urged the board to include electronic cigarettes under the ban. Introduced in the United States five years ago, electronic cigarettes do not burn tobacco but use a built-in battery to heat up a liquid nicotine solution, creating a vapor hit that delivers the chemical directly into the lungs. “They are not approved by the FDA, but this is a new product that’s been developed that is skirting a lot of the smoking laws that we currently have, and so many municipalities are going back and revisiting these definitions to make sure that’s included,” Long noted.

With little discussion, the council majority agreed to include electronic cigarettes under the proposed ban.

 

[sherid]

I propose a ban on CA. Seriously, I have been there and found it breathtakingly beautiful; however, there is nothing that would make me ever go to CA again considering their horrifyingly misguided prohibitionist policies. Please keep your tourist dollars out of the state. If you live there, seriously consider moving.

 

[mwplefty]

This doesn't surprise me unfortunately. I love California. It's one of my favorite vacation spots in the United States. However, their progressive politics are just all to familiar to non-Californians. San Luis Obispo became the first city in the world to ban smoking at all indoor public facilities in 1990. California became the first state to ban smoking in all indoor public facilities, including restaurants in 1995. This ban was extended to bars in 1998. West Hollywood was the first city that I had ever been to that had an ordinance banning smoking in the outdoor seating of restaurants (or within 5 feet of such patios). I'm surprised that the entire state hasn't banned vaping indoors like New Jersey, another progressive state, has already done.

 

[DC2]

Well, looks like they are getting closer to me...
Now they are only a 4 hour drive away...

When they get within driving distance...
They are gonna get a face full of me.

 

[pianoguy]

*adds Buellton to the list of cities I will never visit*

 

[Turnkeys]

I used to live near a town like this in WA State, where it was illegal to play music loud enough that it could be heard outside the vehicle. If you wished to smoke in your car, you had to roll your windows up.

About once a month in the summer, I'd roar through on my motorcycle, blasting out "Danger Zone" from the Top Gun soundtrack.