Santa Barbara is Now a Smoke-Free City

The hard work has finally come to fruition! Yeah!

Purely an infringement on personal rights geared at the homeless population and for the police to write tickets. California big government at it's finest. Instead of being a socialist state perhaps, a communist one would be more appropriate. Maybe Santa Barbara should focus on getting rid of the some seven hundred plus city workers that do nothing and make over $100K plus, plus. Like the forty six year old cop who earned more than $450K two straight years. His pension will be based on his last three years of service and will be funded at eighty percent of the last three year average! Swallow that Santa Barbara! It will take a whole bunch of smoking tickets to pay for that...like 2600 at $155 each every year. No CEO of any profitable company would ever allow such a huge number of employees to earn so much! The company would be broke in no time! Where does the money come from for such idiotic laws and their enforcement? YOU! You socially just fools! That's why California is ranked near dead last for fiscal health. Oh but, we are one of the world's largest economies!!! It does not matter if you cannot fund your own retirement!!! Smoke that!!!

Good grief, what time is our curfew? I shouldn’t even say that it’ll probably be up next for discussion at city hall.

Overkill

Slow news day, Edhat? Gotta bring this back up again despite the policy going into effect back in September...

I quit smoking over 4 years ago thanks to electronic cigarettes. While I understand how annoying it is to have smoke/vape gust through downtown while you are trying to enjoy SB, I just don't understand why we need to have an official "law" which encourages enforcement through verbal warnings.

What happened to just being courteous of those around you? If you don't like people smoking where you are eating/standing/walking, ask them to smoke somewhere else. If you don't like people bugging you when you smoke/vape, go do it somewhere else. Dip around a corner or into an alley, go where there aren't open-air restaurants or children.

I'll quit vaping in public the day someone shows up with ANY study that actually shows second-hand vapor causing health issues in an open-air setting (or even in-doors). So far no such studies have concluded actual harm. Hell, most studies show minimal-to-no negative impact from vaping anyway. In the mean time I will keep being courteous with my habits and expect others to do the same.

Hooray. About time. I was going to down vote the pro-ciggie and negative comments, but why would I deprive other Edhat readers of the right to see just how many people are callously uncaring and true idiots about secondhand smoke?*********For those of us who don't enjoy breathing in nasty cigarette smoke chemicals, this is a wonderful ban. How silly that it had to be a ban in the first place. Too bad cigarette smoking people are so ----- is it arrogance or just pure ignorance?----lame about assaulting non-smokers with their addiction. Good on ya City.

I'd rather see them ban those horrible street sweepers. They plod down the streets in a HUGE cloud of dust and other effluvia they allegedly sweep. Try going past one in an open convertible some time. They're far worse than leaf blowers.

I have no doubt the tourists are going to get passes on this as they do most things.

Who do I call to report smokers??

It is so funny how many people are having Tantrums about this! There are a lot of cities that don't allow smoking in their downtown areas and public parks and those cities are usually cleaner and people are more courteous. It also will help reduce some of the drama that's going on with the homeless people downtown. There is more to it than just preventing smokers from polluting non-smokers air.

So if I get angry and smoke comes out of my ears I can go to jail?

Upon reading the city’s website your still allowed to smoke in your car(driving down state street) and are stil able to smoke on privately owned land & private parking lots.

I wholeheartedly agree with the intent of this law but I saw firsthand how this did not work at SBCC so I sincerely doubt it will work in the city itself. People who smoke will smoke when and where they want.

By PAUL ROGERS Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: October 6, 2017
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on Friday Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed two bills that would have banned smoking at all state beaches and state parks in California.

“If people can’t even smoke on a deserted beach, where can they?” Brown wrote in a veto message. “There must be some limit to the coercive power of government.”
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well done, guv'nor. More please. (I'm a liberal)

They can't smoke them, but can you buy them?

If homeless people don't stop smoking can they pay a $155 fine? If they can't pay the fine can we throw them out of the city permanently?

i hope this applies to tobacco smoking at the food concession area at the Santa Barbara Bowl. It is the designated smoking area of the Bowl and it's nasty. The Bowl is county owned and should be considered a county park or recreation area. here here

I don't get why vaping is included in this ordinance. There is zero data showing second-hand vapor is harmful, either indoors or outside. When we start making laws based on suppositions and personal preferences, not facts, data and science, it is a slippery slope.
Then there are those dangerous bar-b-qs and fireplaces, diesel engines. Why do we allow them?

with no competition 40722 is the new board idiot hands down.