The Atlanta City Council's Community Development and Human Resources Committee voted Tuesday to send the wide-ranging in Atlanta parks and other recreation areas to the full City Council for consideration as soon as next Monday.
If passed by the full City Council, the ban will have an impact on Atlanta's parks, playgrounds, athletic fields, aquatic areas, tennis courts, golf courses and walking trails.
An exception was approved by the committee for the , Aaron's Amphitheater at Lakewood and Park Tavern at Piedmont Park. Atlantic Station began enforcing the ban on July 14, just in time for the BB&T Open. Several local jurisdictions already have similar bans in place, but the city of
What do you think about the move toward a total ban on smoking, both indoors as well as outside? Is it necessary for the health of the general public or an infringement on the individual liberty of those in the community who smoke?
Ban that too? Grow up and show some backbone, the world has quite enough drama queens.
See: http://www.newarkadvocate..com/article/20120714/NEWS01/120715001/Night-Thunder-allows-racers-announcer-let-loose Commented: My lord where is the Licking County Health Department at? How dare these people pollute the air with carcinogens with deadly gases mixed in. How dare these individuals create such noise that it can damage the hearing of members of the public in the area. How dare these people so boldly waste so much of our natural resources. How dare these people to indulge in a act that is so dangerous that it is against the law to do upon public property, oops if a bar is public property to protect the public health (smoking which is a legal act) the same should apply to this activity as well. Where is "It is our duty to protect the public's health as was stated by the health department to get a ban passed. Where is Commissioner Dave Smith at to protect the public health at in this outrageous activity at the trails?
Seriously these government officials need to be fired as common sense would dictate that it appears their motives are not for public safety but are motivated by money from special interest groups!
Smoking is a blight on society and a drain on our economy because of related health care costs, it shouldn't be allowed in any area supported by tax dollars, period. I hope for your sake that you find the will to quit. Your friends and family will appreciate it.
I looked at your profile and what did I see? "As a former banker and businessman I am very concerned about the state of our national economy" I think one can fill in the possibilities of your health problems when viewing your photo in your body weight and employment behind a desk.
I heard the argument that someone's product usage can be a health care problem for those directly or indirectly exposed to it (aka cars?). But, it's one's choice where they stand outside (someone can always move to a better spot), and nobody owns anyone else, so why can't we learn how to respect the choices of others, even if we disagree with them? I smoke and do not blow directly on someone's face for goodness sake. Smoke responsibly, don't smoke respectfully.
No one has a right to smoke, or not breathe leftover smoke. Rights are our power over government, not each other. Get that straight and look in the mirror to see what I see. A programmed and politically corrected Fool. Grass roots paid for, with your own taxes to turn us against each other. and look how many so willingly jumped on board. In support of their own temporary comfort, they traded away the rights if us all. Hubris awaits.
Not sure why you're trolling around here. I can see you're feeling tortured to be surrounded by fools and idiots. Your time may be better spent searching the nooks and crannies of your home for wiretaps and other forms of government surveillance. That said, I agree we all could use a little less government intervention in our lives but your rants resemble that of a paranoid zealot. What happened in your life that was so bad it has made you angry to the point where you can't be rational?
All they know is greed and all this sudden interest in the affairs of others, is only about the money. Look for yourself. Start with Dr. Robert Proctor then read "Mr. Gates summer vacation". You will start to see the pieces of history, that the medical experts refuse to talk about. Because it makes them no different than anyone else. They hate that.
How far do we take this supposed "protection". And does it really support anyone's common good? How many will have to die this time around, before the majority sobers up?
Because I speak in favor of what used to be considered normal and just common sense? I used to live in a better place where government hacks knew their place. Too many today are far too willing to simply bend over and say thank you for all the ways we are being screwed out of our freedom. When it is being done to entrench the rights of people who are getting rich selling smoking patches, by governments lobbying governments, who is the troll and why is there suddenly an objection to another point of view? When I see what little is left of what I took for granted when I was younger, I believe it is a crime what little opportunities and freedom we are leaving for the younger generations to suffer. Simply because they never knew freedom as we did. The Government ruling us and interfering in our lives is not a normal state of affairs in a free society, in spite of all the tax paid promotions to the contrary. I just don''t take kindly to being asked to bend over and squeal like a pig. That to me is normal. I don't know who you are.
Unfortunately, many smokers (apparently yourself included) attach arguments and defenses to the heath and legality debates while avoiding entirely simple courtesy and respect for your neighbors. You fail to acknowledge (and based on your response to Dave, apparently don't care), that for many of us cigarette smoke is annoying, cough-inducing, aggrevates allergies, uncomfortable, or downright disgusting.
NOT banned are residues of any of 450 or so registered tobacco pesticides, carcinogenic radiation from PO-210-contaminated phosphate tobacco fertilizers, burn accelerants and other fire causing techniques, kid-attracting sweets and flavors galore, dioxin-creating chlorine pesticide residues and chlorine-bleached paper, addiction-enhancing additives, fake tobacco "helper" made from non-organic industrial waste cellulose, or any of the 1400 or so untested, non-tobacco additives that manufacturers select from to concoct their secret recipes. None of that's banned. But the unwitting, unprotected, secretly-poisoned, sickened, defrauded and even killed victims are blamed and prosecuted. The injustice is significant....whether or not one smokes or likes the smell of tobacco or cigarettes or not. Check out http://fauxbacco.blogspot.com for ample references to use to become informed on this topic. By the way, a REAL "nanny" would protect "her" children from those non-tobacco cigarette toxins and carcinogens and the rest. This govt is no more a "nanny", by blaming the victims of big time corporate crime, than the man in the moon.