Councilman Joe Cimperman, who obviously doesn’t enjoy trips to flavor country, has proposed an ordinance to ban smoking in public places “connected to the city of Cleveland.”
Via NewsNet5, that would include:
– City-owned public parks
– City-owned outdoor recreation areas
– City-owned swimming pools
– Picnic shelters within city-owned parks & recreation areas
– Public Square
– Downtown malls open to the public
– City-owned cemeteries
– Defined areas adjacent to city-owned buildings that are used by the public
This article appears in Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2011.
I can’t wait until this starts paying the widespread health dividends that this city needs from laws like this.
They need to ban the eating of fried, fatty foods in public places also then. The government needs to stay out of our personal lives. This country is starting to resembe a communist country. I don’t want to be told what to do every minute of the day whether it’s good or bad for me. Let it be my decision.
They need to Ban Asshole Councilman, go screw yourself jerk!
Let’s see, he wants to ban smoking next to city owned buildings, which also happen to be next to streets. And what are on streets? Cars pumping out significantly more dangerous fumes than a cigarette smoker (don’t believe me – I’ll smoke a cigarette while you suck an exhaust pipe and we’ll see who’s alive in 5 minutes). In fact, the pollutants found in outdoor air have nothing to do with cigarettes, vehicles and industry account for most of it. This isn’t about clean air, it’s about some self-righteous monkey-butt wanting to tell other people what to do because he doesn’t like what they’re doing.