Proposal would apply to public places and places of employment
The Encinitas City Council will decide Wednesday whether to expand the city’s smoking ban so that it would cover sidewalks and parked vehicles.
Area environmental organizations and youth health advocates have lobbied the council to broaden the ban, saying this will reduce cigarette butt litter and discourage youths from lighting up.The item will go before the City Council at its 6 p.m. meeting at City Hall, 505 S. Vulcan Ave. In recent emails to the city, environmentalists and health advocates praised the proposal and, in some cases, said they wished the city had gone further. Suzanne Hume ofwrote that Encinitas also should ban the sale of smoking products and prohibit smoking in multi-unit apartment complexes.
Brittany Corrales, executive director of the Leucadia 101 MainStreet Association, wrote that the ban will impact a number of businesses and their patrons in the city’s Leucadia region.
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