Two California Cities to vote on banning smoking in apartments?

What do you think of these proposals? Are we going to let the government in our homes telling us what we can and cannot do? Isn't the government just going to far with controlling us in our own homes? How far will it the governemt go, and can we let it happen? USA Today 10/03/2007 P.S. I am not a smoker! M G: The point would be you would have no choice. That should be up to the owner of the building, don't you think? George P.: All you would have to do is draw up a lease with the no smoking provision in it! Hotels have non-smoking rooms. I have a smoke free house. I just don't think the government should be the one having the say. Too much Big Brother?

Public Comments

1. Apparently liberals want government out of our bedrooms but it's OK for them to be in our living rooms.........
2. I think it is terrible. The government does not have the right to tell private business what they can or cannot allow in their business. It should be up to the owner of the building whether they will allow smoking or not. If someone does not want to be exposed to second hand smoke, they can choose to live in a building that does not allow smoking.
3. That is CRAZY!! The sheeple just sit back and let it happen. Is it just cigarettes or can you smoke your medical marijuana in your own home? That would be really ironic, CA the only place where it is illegal to smoke tobacco but legal to smoke marijuana.
4. If I owned a building and was renting it out I would not want my tenants smoking in the apartments. Edit: I understand what you are saying. Is it because the smoke will travel through the building and affect non-smokers? Several small businesses (restaurants and bars) in my town went out of business when the smoking ban was put in place, but the ones who could afford to hire lawyers to find loopholes or to build large "patios" are making more money than ever.
5. maybe people with allergies or children will be banned from having indoor pets. that's a health issue isn't it? once the government starts telling individuals what to do in their own homes or how to run their own businesses, there is no end to the abuses of this power. and no, Brian, this is not a lib/con issues. a public smoking ban went into effect this month in the city i live in. smoking is now banned in restaurants here as well. and this southern state isn't ANYTHING like California, and is strongly controlled by republicans
6. that's just too much. and how they going to enforce it, cameras in your homes? regular inpections? this is over the top. england is ruling no smoking in cars. the irony is, this campaign against tobacco is costing america millions in taxes and revnue. billions. this country was founded on tobacco. strange.
7. JUST WAIT They will be telling you which days you are allowed to have sex.
8. I would love to see how they would enforce this.
9. I agree witn M G. If I owned property, as in an apartment or even a house, I wouldn't want people smoking in there either. If I had to let them live there, I would want more of a security deposit to get rid of the smell of smoke inside the property. However, I do believe the state doesn't have a right to ban smoking inside your home, but they could make it to where an apartment manager could ban it. If it does happen to ban smoking within apartments, I can see a lot of people breaking the law on this. If I smoked, I know I would. I wouldn't let anyone tell me that I couldn't smoke in my own home.
10. The government is looking after the welfare of our future. I don't want lung cancer because some jerk before me smoked in this apartment and now the remnants of the smoke won't leave. What is the landlord going to do? They just want money. If you want to smoke, buy your own house or condo. I wish they would outlaw smoking on public property. I get tired of walking through a cloud of smoke on my way to work every day. Sure people have a right to smoke. But you don't have the right to infringe on my right to not smoke.
11. I am a smoker and I think it just one of the many first steps to becoming a Nazi state. I'm glad I don't live in California but even where I live, they have made it illegal to smoke in my own business. I say we burn their butt down.
12. thanks to giving more power to the states, it didn't take em long, did it?
13. As a resident of the peoples Republic of Kalifornia and a non smoker(cigs or weed) nothing surprises me in this state!!! governmental expansion into almost every thing we do do has got to stop!!! pretty soon their will be county laws telling you when you have to go to bed,get up,turn on your coffee pot,computer,toaster!! Sex will be allowed only between the hours of 12:15 AM and 12:45 Am!!
14. Next, they will be in our kitchens taking away our Fry Daddy's
15. This is government to the extreme. This is my place and leave me alone. I shoul.d have the right of choice. Liberals, remember smoking is a choice. Therefore, leave me alone. Also, Do not Tread on me. It ios a chjoice the same as your so call murdering of fetuses. Did I offend you? Mission accomplished.