The decision to nearly eliminate smoking from all areas of Belmont [Calif.] has people across the country watching the small Peninsula city as it prepares to make history. As first reported in the Daily Journal yesterday, the Belmont City Council voted unanimously to draft an ordinance that will ban smoking in all areas of the city except for detached, single-family residences. It would make Belmont the first city in the nation to draft such a broad ban. By law, a person caught smoking in a park, on the street or in their apartment could be slapped with a ticket. (San Mateo Daily Journal, Thursday)
Escalation.
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