Multiple media outlets are reporting that the city council of San Rafael, California has passed an ordinance prohibiting smoking inside residences with shared walls. This would include, of course, apartments, condominiums, duplexes, and other multi-family dwellings.
The ordinance was passed in October 2012, but did not go into effect until November 14, 2013.
According to a statement made by the city council on the city’s official website, the new regulation strengthens “the City’s municipal code to further protect the community from secondhand smoke.”
This is tricky,sort of. I understand their good intentions. Yes, smokingis terrible for you. It causes disease and rots your health away to nothing. But at the same time,you cannot prevent people from doingit in their own homes. It's just not right. Unless cigerettes become outlawed in general like crack cocaine,I could not back a law like this even though smoking is as terrible as it is. This is fascism. A government,local or otherwise, cannot tell a person what he or she can or cannot do in their own homes. Period. -Mort
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