L.A. officials express support for smoking ban in outdoor dining areas

[The Straight Story]

L.A. officials express support for smoking ban in outdoor dining areas


A Los Angeles City Council committee voiced support today for a ban on smoking in the city’s outdoor dining areas, but ordered several changes to the ordinance before sending it to the full council for approval.

The council could take up the measure as early as next month.

City code already prohibits smoking in parks, farmers’ markets and on city beaches, while state law bars customers from lighting up inside restaurants. Other cities have imposed far more restrictive bans; Calabasas, for instance, prohibits smoking in public areas.

The legislation authored by Councilmen Greig Smith and Dennis Zine would ban smoking within a 10-foot radius of outdoor dining areas. The proposed no-smoking area around mobile food trucks and food kiosks would extend for 40 feet.

Bars, private events and nightclubs serving customers older than 18 would be exempt.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/a-los-angeles-city-council-committee-voiced-support-for-a-ban-on-smoking-in-the-citys-outdoor-dining-areas-tuesday-but-or.html

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