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On the bright side, the huge exemption to the smokefree workplaces law just got just smaller. The D.C. Council today approved a measure that would limit it to two events per year: Fight Night (a charity fundraiser) and the annual event held by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, to which Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) [...] flickr photo courtesy of HitTrophy The D.C. Council is poised to yet again attempt to narrow the exemption it has been trying all summer to carve out of the smokefree workplaces law. You may recall that language passed in June permitted 79 hotels to hold cigar-smoking events once a year. In July, the Council narrowed that [...] Flickr photo courtesy of fashionfightspovertydc It isn’t often that a politician admits that his strategy is to bypass the public so he can win. But that’s what D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) told us yesterday when we ran into him outside the Wilson Building. We were talking to Councilmembers about the large exemption the Council put [...] On Thursday, Smokefree DC sent the following letter to D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown. We ccd the entire Council. Aug. 25, 2011 The Hon. Kwame Brown Dear Chairman Brown, We’re writing to tell you that the information you relied upon to support your vote for an exemption [...] “That’s life.” So muttered the woman next to me at a community meeting convened last night in the Greenbelt Community Center last night to discuss the problem of intrusion of secondhand smoke from one apartment to another. The woman was not very sympathetic to the plight of nonsmokers. What an appalling comment. I wonder how she [...] flickr photo courtesy of sebastian6 Here’s an update on the enormous exemption the D.C. Council created in the city’s smokefree workplaces law: They claim it was an accident. Seriously. They meant to vote to approve just an exemption for two events a year, Councilmember Mary Cheh (Ward 3) told my colleague, Bob Summersgill. In fact, the Council [...] flickr photo courtesy of lysbyth Way to go Philadelphia; Mayor Michael Nutter has signed an executive order making the city’s pools, playgrounds and recreation centers smokefree. The change takes effect July 1. It’s great news for parents who don’t want their kids to be exposed to the toxins in secondhand smoke. And great news for the kids [...] smoker no. 85 by filtran, courtesy of flickr If they can do it in North Dakota, it can be done anywhere. North Dakota’s capital city is making bars smokefree. Voters this week approved a smokefree bar measure by 60 percent. What’s more, they rejected a proposal for outdoor smoking huts. The final tally: 5,273 voted to make [...] American University student Noah Jacobs isn’t giving up. Intent on making the school’s smokefree areas mean something, Jacobs recently took a bag full of cigarette butts in to the president’s office to make his point. He also delivered a letter calling for the school to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke. The president wasn’t there, but Jacobs showed the [...] New York, which was one of the early leaders in the smokefree workplace movement, may be a trendsetter when it comes to smokefree housing. The Wall Street Journal reports that buildings are increasingly going smokefree. At least half a dozen Manhattan co-ops are expected to ask shareholders during annual meetings this spring to vote on an all-out [...] |
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