Take someone with too much time on their hands and a ridiculously moralistic and self-righteous worldview, combine that with activist government and what do you get? A city that bans smoking in your own home, that's what. One California town has taken misguided activist government to a new place - private residences.
Residents in apartment buildings inside the city limits of Belmont, California won't be lighting up cigarettes with their morning coffee at the breakfast table anymore. Residents violating the ordinance will face $100 fines.
The article doesn't address why the buildings don't simply make their own rules.
When does this madness stop? Our politicians won't restrict abortion because of some judicially manufactured "right to privacy," but they'll invade the homes of citizens to keep them from smoking in their own homes.
The (Belmont City) Council passed the law in October 2007, barring smoking anywhere in the city of about 25,000 except in detached homes and yards, streets and some sidewalks, and designated smoking areas outside.
NY Times Article
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