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Should smoking be banned on our beaches?

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Should smoking be banned from our beaches?

  • yes, the butts are everywhere!

    Votes: 43 48.9%

  • no, I thought this was a free country!

    Votes: 39 44.3%

  • not sure need more info

    Votes: 6 6.8%
  • Total voters
    88
  • Poll closed .
I don't have a problem with smoking, I have a problem with smoke in MY air and butts/cartons littering my planet, my beaches, my yard.

Since I've seen a lit cigarette go out the window of a marked WCSO vehicle, I don't think the enforcement on a smoking ban or stepping up the littering enforcement would be that great. :bang:
 
Go look at the beaches this time of year at low tide. Find the high water line and look at all the butts! They are everywhere! Try Ed Walline. Sad!:angry:
 
M2C---I smoke, I hate I smoke, easier to say quit than to actually quit. Tried many times. I don't like smoke in my face and try very hard to be aware of others. I smoke on the beach and when I leave I make sure all my butts leave with me. I pick up trash in my area and that includes the butts of others. I hate the buried beer can, the broken glass all over the place, I pick that up too. I agree strongly that you need to treat cig butts like trash--throw them away. I will say though, we have been injured by the cans and broken glass bottles, more than by cig butts. (Other than my lungs). I don't drink, I smoke, I don't cuss, I smoke, and if you lived with my family you would probably drink, cuss, and smoke! Just kidding, love them dearly! Don't ban smoking on the beach, everybody has some bad habit.
 
Everyone is talking about the butts. What about the second hand smoke? It seems that every time I settle down in a nice spot on the beach, some smoker sets up upwind of me. How many times should I have to move to be able to enjoy the beach? People do not have the right to take away other's right to breathe clean air. I think smoking should be banned in all public places.
 
I don't really notice the smoke as much at the beach (probably because I tend to go to the beach at off times/locations or am on the move.)

The butts I see everywhere. :angry:
 
Majah said:
M2C---I smoke, I hate I smoke, easier to say quit than to actually quit. Tried many times. I don't like smoke in my face and try very hard to be aware of others. I smoke on the beach and when I leave I make sure all my butts leave with me. I pick up trash in my area and that includes the butts of others. I hate the buried beer can, the broken glass all over the place, I pick that up too. I agree strongly that you need to treat cig butts like trash--throw them away. I will say though, we have been injured by the cans and broken glass bottles, more than by cig butts. (Other than my lungs). I don't drink, I smoke, I don't cuss, I smoke, and if you lived with my family you would probably drink, cuss, and smoke! Just kidding, love them dearly! Don't ban smoking on the beach, everybody has some bad habit.
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Glass bottles are banned from the beach FYI. I think it would be odd here to have people banned from smoking on the beach but I also felt that way about, bottles, horses, dogs, fires, etc. The point of this thread was to open a few eyes. They have begun to ban smoking on the beaches in CA. Not because they wanted to but because people were warned and warned and finally they had no choice! The problem is not the people that pick up their butts its the people that don't seem to consider it littering! Go look at the high tide line at low tide. Pretty sad is all I can say.... :(
 
Sorry, didn't mean to hit a nerve. The issue started out with Should we ban smoking on the beach. I was just voting no, even though the poll was closed. I also stated that I try very hard to be courteous to others. I do pack my cig butts out and well as others. I personally enjoy a cig as much as the person that enjoys a nice cold beer. I'm sorry that other smokers have left you with a bad view of all of us. It was just MHO with a little joke at the end. Sorry again.
 
My last reply was to Palm Beach, I am totally aware that bottles are banned, although still there, have spent several days in the ER about that and rusty cans. I do see tons of butts. It is very sad. Any trash on the beach is sad.
 
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