re: #267 FurryOldGuyJeans

re: #272 Sharmuta

THE INCREASINGLY stringent smoking bans of the last decade seem to be aimed at transforming what was once a widely accepted habit into a shameful vice practiced only in the privacy of one’s home. But even that refuge is no longer available to smokers in Belmont, California Belmont is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. It is a small suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area, located half-way down the San Francisco Peninsula between San Mateo and San Carlos. The population was 25,123 at the 2000 census.
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Last fall the city council of Belmont, a town halfway between san Jose San Jose, city, United States
San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850.
….. Click the link for more information. and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , adopted what appears to be the first U.S. ordinance that prohibits smoking in private residences. It applies to any housing unit that shares a floor or ceiling with another housing unit, on the theory that the slightest whiff of secondhand smoke secondhand smoke
n.
Cigarette, cigar, or pipe smoke that is inhaled unintentionally by nonsmokers and may be injurious to their health if inhaled regularly over a long period. Also called passive smoke. poses an intolerable health hazard health hazard Occupational safety Any agent or activity posing a potential hazard to health. Cf Physical hazard. . Declaring that tobacco smoke is “extremely dangerous Exteremely Dangerous is a 1999 four part series for ITV starring Sean Bean as an ex-MI5 undercover agent convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and child who goes on the run to try and clear his name. He sets out to follow up a strange clue sent to him in prison.
….. Click the link for more information.” regardless of dose, the ordinance also prohibits smoking in most public spaces outdoors.

Around the same time this ordinance received final approval, California passed a law that targets smoking in one of the few locations exempt from Belmont’s ban: private automobiles. The Golden State joined the growing list of jurisdictions, including Arkansas, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and Bangor, Maine, that prohibit smoking in vehicles carrying children. The Arkansas law covers vehicles carrying children who are under 6 and weigh less than 60 pounds—the same passengers who are required to ride in child safety seats. California’s law, by contrast, applies to any cars with passengers under 18.

California’s New Smoking Bans

I’ve read various things different municipalities have proposed, in addition to Calif. state laws, but can’t find any refs right now.