It appears that the ban on smoking in multi unit apartments and condos by the city of Carlsbad has prompted calls for more such bans.
The ban inside Carlsbad’s city limits, the first such ban in San Diego County, is set to take effect in January.
But it’s not the first such ban in California with some other cities already having done it.
As one reader at the San Diego Union Tribune wrote this week, “Why stop there? Where are all these smokers going to go? Into the shopping centers, parking lots and along the sidewalks where we will all have to endure their smoke.”
So what will smokers do? Will they abide by the new ordinance? Will they go somewhere else to smoke? Will they move to an apartment or condo in some other city?
Many who are former smokers say they don’t want to put up with people smoking around them at all due to their health and their now total dislike for smoking and the smell that goes along with it.
According to the statistics from the Department of Public Health’s latest report, only 11 percent of people 18 and over in California say they smoke or use tobacco of any kind.
But if these bans like the one in the city of Carlsbad continue to spread, it could lead to even more smokers giving up the habit in California.
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