How do u feel about a smoking ban during circle swims? Sent from my U.S. Cellular Android device
----- Reply message ----- From: "ssp" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Aug 18, 2012 3:44 pm Subject: [COWs] Ride in the lane To: <[email protected]> ..... .....if the smoke ban passes then it will help the 'butt litter' issue for both CB and WB. The registered WB voters will have the opportunity this Nov'12 to express their desire for a smoke-free WB or not. The WB board of alderman have voted against a smoke- ban on WB twice now. This girl, Danielle Richardet, has pretty much proven the need for smoking to be banned on beaches. Here is her blog. http://itstartswithme-danielle.blogspot.com/ Well documented and evidence for the rule. Especially interesting is the comparison to Santa Monica beach butt litter count and the WB butt litter count: *For the next 100 days, my friend Sara who writes The Daily Ocean<http://thedailyocean.blogspot.com/>blog will be counting and tallying the number of cigarette butts she finds during her 20 minute beach clean ups in Santa Monica-- a SMOKE-FREE beach.* *We're comparing a smoke-free beach (Santa Monica) to a beach with no smoking ban (Wrightsville Beach). We hope to answer the question:* *Do smoking bans really help the cigarette litter problem?* *46 beach clean ups-- 259 cigarette butts in Santa Monica* *30 beach clean ups-- 6,499 cigarette butts in Wrightsville Beach* * * * * My personal position? I *hate* to see more regulation occur. The USA was founded on people having freedoms and opportunities take make their lives better. Having government get too involved creates dependency and stifles personal freedoms and responsibility. Smokers should have the freedom to smoke as long as the smoke and their butt litter does not encroach on people who choose not to smoke. That being said our society has, degraded to a level where people seem to have lost their common sense and decency and continue to trash our public Beaches and roadways with butt litter. I feel many smokers have ruined their own personal freedoms and the smoke-ban should be enacted. Sad, but a necessity as shown by Danielle's documentation. Boils down to this. Many people just do not care anymore. I think that is a by-product of the lack of good parenting in our children today. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Jim Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > So where do you stand on the smoking ban on the strand at CB > :>) > Birdman > > Sent from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en.
