Nonsmoking Beaches in the Future?
Have you ever had your day at the beach ruined by cigarette smoke? You’re there to breathe in the fresh salt air and you just can’t stop smelling that harsh cigarette smoke wafting in from one of your beach bunny neighbors.
The town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, agrees. (I’m on a clean air kick today.) The Barnstable Recreation Commission decided unanimously to send a request to the Town Manager to ban cigarette smoking on all the town’s public beaches by the Summer 2009 season. The principle behind this push is that they want to maintain public beaches as clean and healthy areas, which smoking obviously does not promote.
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I’m happy to say no to cigarette butts between my toes and that stifling stench in my nose, but what do you think? Is this a welcome proposition or an infringement on personal freedom?
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3 Comments
August 27th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I think in a lot of places smoking is already banned on beaches.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:45 am
I feel that my personal freedom is an infringed when I don´t have the freedom to sit on the beach where I want to, because I want to avoid inhaling the cigarette smoke !
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I agree, smoke always ruins a pristine environment. Even today, my nutrition counselor’s office reeked of tobacco.
what a turn off!
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