Proposed ordinance in Duluth (MN) City Council would ban outdoor tobacco use (including e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco) at lake front and parks

[Bill Godshall]

Outdoor tobacco use (including e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco) ban proposed in Duluth (MN) City Council.
Proposed ordinance
http://www.duluthmn.gov/clerk/council/resord12/12-054-o.pdf

News story
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/241307/group/News/

http://www.duluthmn.gov/clerk/council/ccmembers.cfm
(city council contact info)


council@duluthmn.gov (e-mail address for all council members)

 

[Vocalek]

We knew it would come to this some day. Now officials want to ban smoking from (literally) the Last Place on Earth.

 

[Fiamma]

If you click the link on the news story it goes to the council members page. You need to copy/paste it to read the news article.

 

[Stubby]

Duluth considers smoking ban on Lakewalk, adjacent Lake Superior parks - TwinCities.com

Banning Smokers From Duluth Waterfront, Parks? « CBS Minnesota

 

[VapApe]

Along with the e cig education, When contacting the council members point out that the part on smokeless tobacco.
Can not be really enforced unless they are willing to stop people and search their mouths.

Think how that would look on the evening News, When the tobacco they were looking for turns out to gum

Now here is a evil thought show up at the council meeting with a big wad of bubble gum in you cheek. Wile chewing away have a spit can handy to really sell it. When it your turn to speak.

Blow a big bubble then ask what did you think I had in my mouth?

 

[mwplefty]

It shouldn't surprise anyone. If any of you remember in Minnesota, it became the first state in the country (in August 1975) to ban smoking indoors except in designated areas (bars were exempt entirely). Basically, the days of simply walking into a building and freely lighting up whenever and wherever without any social (or legal) consequences was over. I also believe that they banned smoking in hospitals, day-care centers, and public schools at this time as well (I wonder how well those provisions were followed). Indoor areas that permitted smoking had to use appropriate signage.

 

[Bill Godshall]

VapApe wrote

Can not be really enforced unless they are willing to stop people and search their mouths.

And when tobacco companies begin marketing tobacco enemas, they'll have stop people and search their .......s.

 

[VapApe]

Well Bill that wont happen. It would mean that they would have to pull their heads out of their ....s first

 

[Bill Godshall]

The Duluth City Council approved the proposed outdoor tobacco usage ban
City Council bans smoking on Duluth Lakewalk | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

The new ordinance is at
http://www.duluthmn.gov/clerk/OrdinancePublicationFiles/09102012a.pdf