Smoking Ban?

today, the city of newport beach enforced the no smoking policy in public beaches. newport beach is the third city (san clemente and huntington beach) to enforce such law.

i think this is bullsh!t. first you can't smoke in a bar... that one's a bit understandable. it's an eclosure, the smoke builds up. but if you don't like smoke in a bar, maybe you shouldn't go there... go to a club or something. but the beach..? it's open air! you don't like the smell, move to another spot. they say the cigarette butts pollute the sand. what will they ban next? sodas? marshmallows?

I have to agree with the ban. Theres nothing worse than walking barefoot along the beach and standing on a cigarette butt. Yuk! It's been in someones mouth and smells fkn nasty!

A beach is an open area. Therefore, you should be able to smoke at a beach, seeing that it's allowed elsewhere in open areas.

exactly. and i think there's more disgusting things in the beach other than a cigarette butt. people are litter bugs... or just to f*ckin' lazy to get up and walk to a trash can. i just can't get the concept of it being illegal in an open space. america, the land of the free my a$$...

I'm glad this law was taken into place.

All of the beach north of Newport Harbor is lined with housing with exception to one elementary school and the boardwalk. Aside from that there is nothing but houses that have sand for a backyard.

Of course, no one likes the rich pricks that get to call that area their home, but I personally have a lot of respect for them. I want to be a rich prick with a nice house on the beach one day myself...and I wouldn't want any little snot nosed punks leaving cigarette butts in my "backyard"

Even if it is a good 50 yards to the water, I know there isn't adequate ash trays to keep the beaches clean.

Crap like that in such a popular beach area is part of the reason why the water down there is so crappy. Well that and it doesn't hurt that the Talbert Channel is right their either. 😘

You should be allowed to smaoke where ever you damn well please. This is the "Land of the Free" isnt it?

that means it might come over to canada.

I think is great to ban cigarrete smoking. I wish that law was more enforce in the L.A. county. I can't stand the smoke coming from some puffing smoker anywhere near me. Smoking sucks! Period!

I used to smoke, and I have absolutely nothing against smokers. I do think that they should be aloud to smoke outside...just not on the beach. There is a board walk right next to it throughout most of Newport. And on the other side of those houses there are streets lined with sidewalks to smoke on.

Seriously, who the hell goes to the beach to smoke anyways?

that was going to be my point, actually, that last part 😂

Have ya ever noticed there is no middle ground on this subject? Its all or nothing......I personally am SICK to death of non smokers treating me like Im a damn criminal if I light up. Look I know its an ugly addiction, but damn! I am not inconsiderate about this. I dont blow smoke in other peoples faces, or smoke in their houses or cars but banning this OUTDOORS???? come ON now....thats just stupid...IMHO. And it should be allowed in a bar.....if I got to put up with some drunk grabbing my ass then he can put up with my smoke.

Well, i for one hate cigarettes. I hate the smoke smell, so i'm for one am glad for the banning. I do thk it makes the beaches look bad, cuz smokers just toss them on the ground. I live on a Ranch w/cabins and Rv sites and they toss them everywhere, i'm like excuse me, PUT IN THE TRASH CAN.

I agree partly with Link and partly with JP... Smoking in bars should be legal, smoking on beaches shouldn't. I don't mind smokers in general, but it's just nasty to be walking along barefoot and step on somebody's cigarette butt... Here in Oregon they banned smoking in all public buildings 😑

Personally I hate cigarettes so Im all about the bans.. My dad smoked a lot when I was growing up, and I always smelled like smoke because he smoked to much, and because he smoked in the house... I hate the smell, and plus its not that good for you. My grandma died of lung cancer about 2years ago.. and she smoked a lot.. and the doctors said smoking was one of the main causes ... so that only made me hate smoking more ..

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
Have ya ever noticed there is no middle ground on this subject? Its all or nothing......I personally am SICK to death of non smokers treating me like Im a damn criminal if I light up. Look I know its an ugly addiction, but damn! I am not inconsiderate about this. I dont blow smoke in other peoples faces, or smoke in their houses or cars but banning this OUTDOORS???? come ON now....thats just stupid...IMHO. And it should be allowed in a bar.....if I got to put up with some drunk grabbing my ass then he can put up with my smoke.

amen! i mean it's not a crime. and if people don't like the smoke, MOVE! but there is really nothing you can do about the smell. i'm not a chain smoker or anything, but i hate this sh!t especially when you're in the smoking lounge of a bar and some stuck up bottle blonde beach bum gives dirty looks, it kinda irks me... it's a f*ckin' SMOKERS' LOUNGE... they don't just call it that for no reason.you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen... 😮‍💨

They only ban cigarettes because it's much easier to patrol looking for people who smoke, than it is for people to just throw their butts in the sand and then cover it with a handful just for someone to step on in the future. They have an adequate number of lifeguards and cops patrolling to stop smoking. However, they don't have the resources to provide adequate facilities for cigarette butts.

I'm no green peace hippy, but I'm not an idiot either. Sh*t like that will trash that beach in no more than 20 years. It's one of the most popular areas of beach in Southern California, and there's no reason to destroy it.

ok, I can SEE the beach thing.....but I have to say I have stepped on broken beer bottles and god knows what ELSE at the beach. SO then we should ban that stuff too right? Come to think of it I have seen dirty diapers as well. Lets face it most peeps are slobs for the most part no matter what it comes to.

You can't drink alcoholic beverages on the beach in Newport either. It's just one of those places...it should be no big deal.

It's the beach! 😎

I am for the ban. Wow so they banned smoking on the beach dont give that "land of the free" BS. Its people like you who give America a bad name. Get up and walk the 25 feet to the end of the beach do what you have to do then go back on the beach..

Originally posted by KidRock
I am for the ban. Wow so they banned smoking on the beach dont give that "land of the free" BS. Its people like you who give America a bad name. Get up and walk the 25 feet to the end of the beach do what you have to do then go back on the beach..