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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Healthy Choices
by Lee

San Francisco cares about your health.

San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to ban smoking in all parks, public squares and other outdoor spaces that the city owns, joining a handful of other California municipalities that have gotten even tougher on tobacco users.

In an 8-3 vote, the Board of Supervisors agreed that the health and environmental risks associated with discarded cigarette butts and second-hand smoke merited extending existing indoor bans to outdoor spaces.

“Like most young parents out there, I’ve had the wonderful experience of sitting with my children on the lawn and seeing them pick up a cigarette butt and popping it in their mouth,” said Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, the measure’s sponsor.

People caught smoking in any of the places where the new law applies can be fined up to $100 on first offense, $200 for a second violation and $500 for each additional violation.

Of course , smoking pole in a city park is still completely legal, not to mention encouraged, as are hordes of homeless vermin spraying their piss and shit on every available horizontal surface.

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