Council Considers Letting Property Owners Banish Outside Smokers
Provision would let home and business owners ban smoking within 25 feet of their walls
By MATTHEW STABLEY
Updated 6:45 AM EST, Tue, Sep 29, 2009
If the lung cancer doesn't kill D.C. smokers, the traffic might.
The D.C. Council is considering allowing residential and commercial property owners to ban smoking within 25 feet from their walls, the Washington Examiner reported. This could extend across city sidewalks, sending smokers into the street to be in compliance.
Yeah, we'd love to see such a provision enforced. We envision fanatical anti-smoking proprietors flailing their limbs at smoking pedestrian passersby and gesturing emphatically at their precious "no smoking anywhere near this building" signs.
OK, so that may be taking it too literally. Councilman Phil Mendelson said the 25-foot ban option targets wild packs of smokers loitering outside office buildings -- human blight. It's not intended to send pedestrians "zigzagging down the street," George Washington University professor and anti-smoking activist John Banzhaf told the Examiner.
But some of these anti-smokers can get really self-righteous. Can't wait to see them try to take the law into their own hands.
First Published: Sep 28, 2009 4:33 PM EST
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