How stoked are we with the latest news from the City of Carlsbadistan? Way. The Carlsbad City Council recently voted to ban smoking from all outdoor restaurant areas were food and/or alcohol are served as part of an update to the City’s ordinance covering smoking.
The ordinance was introduced Sept. 25 and will come before the City Council for adoption, currently scheduled for Oct. 2. The new ordinance will go into effect 30 days after its adoption. At that time, dining establishments will be required to ban smoking in outdoor spaces where they serve food or drinks, and to post signs alerting patrons of the ban. It would also require smokers to stay at least 20 feet away from outdoor dining areas, to prevent second-hand smoke from affecting diners.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Now if we could just get smoking outdoors (including in a car with the windows down) banned in Carlsbadistan, things would be all good. People are aren’t allowed to defecate all over the city’s streets, why should smokers be allowed to stink everything up? Think about it.
For the official word from the City of Carlsbad, follow the jump.Smoking to be banned in outdoor dining areas
The Carlsbad City Council voted to ban smoking in outdoor dining areas as part of an update to the city’s ordinance covering smoking. The new rules will apply to all unenclosed dining areas where food or drinks are served, including sidewalk cafés.
The City of Carlsbad adopted its current ordinance regulating smoking in public areas in 1983. In 1988 the state of California enacted a law prohibiting smoking in all enclosed places of employment, and that ban covered indoor restaurants. The ban did not extend to outdoor or unenclosed dining areas. Local jurisdictions have the power to enact such a prohibition, if they elect to do so.
The City of Carlsbad already bans smoking at beaches, lagoons and parks.
Other cities in the county — Chula Vista, Del Mar, El Cajon, Encinitas, National City and Solana Beach — have enacted smoking bans in outdoor dining areas, and the proposed Carlsbad ordinance is modeled after those.
The amendment to the ordinance changes Title 6 of the City of Carlsbad Municipal Code (Health and Sanitation) to enact the new ban, and would reflect the state’s existing ban on smoking in indoor restaurants.
The ordinance was introduced Sept. 25 and will come before the City Council for adoption, currently scheduled for Oct. 2. The new ordinance will go into effect 30 days after its adoption. At that time, dining establishments will be required to ban smoking in outdoor spaces where they serve food or drinks, and to post signs alerting patrons of the ban. It would also require smokers to stay at least 20 feet away from outdoor dining areas, to prevent second-hand smoke from affecting diners.
Tobacco-related illnesses are the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, resulting in 443,000 deaths each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Second-hand smoke is responsible for as many as 3,000 deaths from lung cancer, and 46,000 deaths from heart disease among nonsmokers nationwide each year, according to the CDC.
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Seriously? You are comparing poop on the street to smoke? Get a grip, guys. The train station is right in the heart of the village and it contains more chemicals that will damage the lungs than the light second hand smoke from cigarettes or cigars. Please. Don’t we have enough laws that infringe on our rights? Come on. This is ridiculous…almost as ridiculous as the unsightly fluorescent pedestrian signs that now degrade the 101’s beauty.