Nearly a year after the Concord City Council approved a ban on smoking and vaping in and around apartments, condos and other attached-housing units, the ban is set to go into effect for all such housing units Friday.
Mobile home and RV parks, as well as dwelling areas in residential facilities such as group homes, residential care facilities, permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, assisted living facilities and emergency and homeless shelters, also come under the ordinance.
Exempt from the ordinance are single-family detached homes, accessory dwelling units, and motel or hotel rooms designated as smoking rooms (no more than 20 percent of all the city’s motel rooms).
The ordinance, approved by the council last January and enacted Feb. 6, applied immediately to newly built attached-housing units, and to those under construction at the time. The ordinance provided for a phase-in period for existing apartments, condos, duplexes and the like; that phase-in period ends with the new year, which arrives Friday.
Regulations allow for designated smoking areas that meet certain criteria, including being at least 25 feet from any area used by children.
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You can’t smoke *in your own mobile home*? What on earth is the rationale for that!?
I’m not a smoker and I completely agree with you.
I was just laughing about the high number of smokers inmobile home parks.Why is it that the low income never take care of good health.I was a cashier years ago and never once sold a pack of cigarettres to someone in good physcal shape.The smokers are always people that should be smoking because htey are already unhealthy,but I wonder if that is why they smoke?They already don’t care about their health so they will just enjoy hedonistic pleasures till they’re dead?.
Just image spending $30k on a mobilehome to live in,and after a few days the smell of carpet fresh wears off and 40 years of smoking starts to come out of the woodwork.Those that smoke in apartments or hotel rooms are really selfish.It stinks up the entire building.The tar soaks in and can never be removedThis is why most apartments these days are non smoker on the lease.You time has come.smokers,you’re a popular a liberal.And you’re one and the same in most cases.
Marco- and THEN we give these people free, unlimited healthcare and money to spend on the groceries they CHOOSE to buy (instead of giving them a box of healthy foods, because they cannot make good decisions, obviously). So, we keep giving them money so they can spend on their unhealthy habits. This makes them sick. Then, we pay to keep them alive for YEARS, even though they are not assets to the economy, so that we can merely keep them alive to keep collecting OUR hard earned money. It DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE. Unless you’re buying votes…
@Marco and @Oh please
Yes, some people make unhealthy choices. That doesn’t mean they lose their civil liberties. Why should the government be able to tell someone not to smoke in their own mobile home – not attached to another structure, not owned by someone else?! Makes zero sense.
Led- when the people demand that everything is paid by the government. That’s when. Plus, it is not a right to smoke and harm others. Their rights end where mine begin. Thankfully I own my home. Well, “own” because the government technically owns everything.
Just more government overreach by Edi Birsan and his ilk.
Really? What did poor Edi do?
Next thing there going to ban is the amount of TV we can watch, the amount of soda we can drink and the amount of beer I can drink.
Soda is legitimately garbage poison liquid candy and you shouldn’t be drinking a drop, bro.
@anon,
But should the government be in the business of prohibiting every unhealthy food product?
Led- People should have the right to do what they want (but not harm other) IF and only IF they pay for their consequences. If people on the dole want to do unhealthy things, they should not be on the dole. If they want the nanny state to pay for everything the nanny state should dictate what they are allowed to eat and where they are allowed to live. Don’t want to participate? Don’t take money form the tax payers. Go out and work for yourself. This is the only thing that would be fair and hold people accountable for their choices and actions. HOWEVER, our government is in the business of buying votes from these poor, uniformed folks that want everything for free. So, nothing will change.
Inch by inch, step by step.
The draconian totalitarian edicts from your leaders are being applauded by the masses.
Refusal to applaud is punishable by death.
Some of you gleefully voted for this.
It’s insane that this law means that in Concord you can be evicted for vaping in your own apartment but not for failing to pay rent.
It’s insane that people would vape or smoke that are over 14 years old.It’s a child’s habit.only legal for adults,so they start you early and youre in it for life,if you’re low information,and you hang around with other smokers too of course.I don’t know one person that smoke cigarettes as a habit.One person I jnow smokes if they have had drinks at a bar,so of course judgement is off,and in hedonistic mode now..
Smoking as an adult requires brain function to be interrupted or damaged.No joke,
Now just who is going to enforce this ordinance? Concord has had a sign ordinance for years that has never been enforced! Second hand smoke is a persistent problem, but this lame ordinance will not change anything. What kind of smoke would this apply to? tobacco, marijuana, opium, fireplace, barbecue, wildfires???
Realize,new laws these days only have 2 purposes;
1)To collect revenue in the form of fines.
2)To pander to those that wanted the law,but it will never be enforced,it was just to quell their yelling.
Sounds like another one of Rudy’s “Common Sense” ideas… a total waste of time and money.
what about da mota (pot) brau?
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I understand that ‘consumption’ of marijuana products is exempt. Is that true?
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To be fair, cannabis second hand smoke is proven to be far, far less dangerous. Cannabis kills 0 or nearly 0 yearly, tobacco kills 7 million yearly.
It also stinks and lingers far less. Tobacco smoked in a car for instance will cause a reek for months, even perhaps years.
The last article I read on this subject said it was ok to smoke a joint though in your apartment. I keep telling you life is over as we know it. There is more to come. They are not going to back down on cancel culture.
Many cities are passing these bans but ALLOWING marijuana smoking. That smell is WAY worse and illegal federally. I cant stand the smoke from either, but this is crazy that you cant smoke in your own home.
Well, technically in some of these instances it is NOT their own home. Mobile homes, yeah… but apartments? They rent. It is not their own home.
How many people have been proven to die from first or second hand smoke from cannabis? Near or absolute zero.
How many people die from tobacco use worldwide? Approximately 7 million per year.
This is why tobacco use should be crushed mercilessly as much as our liberties allow, while cannabis should be allowed and perhaps even encouraged within limits as a vastly safer alternative to the popular drugs of abuse, alcohol and tobacco, drugs which claim hundreds of thousands of American lives.
@anon,
In the long run everybody dies, FYI. It shouldn’t be illegal to make unhealthy choices for your own self.
In my own way, I’m going to close out the year in style.
I have cigarettes, pipes, cigars, and marijuana all smoking away in my apartment right now.
The air is so thick I can barely breathe.
I’m going to keep everything lit and smoking until midnight.
I work in Hayward where we have an outdoor smoking ban. It’s great . You can smoke in your own home. The cops also use it as probable cause to stop people who are usually parolees or meth heads up to no good. Not a fan of government dictating what we can and can’t do but you can’t argue that second hand smoke isn’t a health risk.. and if it gives the cops an extra tool to get turds off the street… go get em’ boys and girls!
No lit fireplaces, no smoking just about anywhere, strictest car emissions in the country, phasing out of refineries, no gas powered cars to be sold by 2030, stop using power between 4-9 all year (commercials being played), crowded housing going up near BART stations (use that public transportation). And keep wearing those masks and stay the hell away from each other! The government loves youuuuu.
Just image spending $30k on a mobilehome to live in,and after a few days the smell of carpet fresh wears off and 40 years of smoking starts to come out of the woodwork.Those that smoke in apartments or hotel rooms are really selfish.It stinks up the entire building.The tar soaks in and can never be removedThis is why most apartments these days are non smoker on the lease.You time has come.smokers,you’re as popular as a liberal.And you’re one and the same in most cases.
Smoking is disgustingly vile and does do REAL meaningful property damage. Someone smoking in your car makes it reek for months, even years potentially depending on variables. Look at the ceiling in the home of anyone who smokes inside regularly.
It’s a tough call when it comes to individual rights and smoking, as by its very nature smoking pollutes the air, lacing it with very real poisons, that others are likely to inhale. It is impossible to capture all the poisoned air a smoke produces, it sadly is forced upon others, totally innocent and undeserving. All smokers should be switching to vaping, really, and from there many will naturally quit as many friends of mine have.
It’s only a tough call indoors, in places where your smoke affects someone else. Any car exhaust pipe is putting out vastly more crap into the air than a cigarette. Outdoors, or in your own space, there is no secondhand argument at all. It’s just straight up paternalism.
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