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flickr photo courtesy of cryptic_star Smoke-free playgrounds? That would definitely be a step in the right direction here in the District of Columbia. D.C. Councilmember Vincent Orange this week introduced a bill that would make areas near playgrounds smoke-free. According to the bill text sent to us by Orange’s office, the measure would: prohibit smoking within 25 feet of [...] Update: The Montgomery County Council today extended protections for non-smokers from secondhand smoke. Way to go! One of the provisions of the measure makes bus stops smokefree. Will the District follow suit? It should. Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Floreen, who sponsored the measure, noted: There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. We are stewards of public [...] flickr photo courtesy of lanier67 Look around next time you ride a Metro bus or train. The person next to you may have asthma or be allergic to cigarette smoke. Judging from the comments on a recently launched Change.org petition calling on WMATA to enforce its no-smoking policy, there are quite a few Metro passengers who [...] Flickr photo courtesy of brownpau Jamie Berke got one whiff too many of secondhand smoke while on the Washington, D.C., Metro system. So she decided to act. She has launched a petition to protect Metro bus and train passengers from the toxins. Secondhand smoke causes lung cancer and heart disease, and aggravates respiratory illnesses. The U.S. Surgeon General [...] Flickr photo courtesy of kristib2pea Candidates for the Ward 5 Council seat received grades ranging from “A” to “F” after filling out a Smokefree DC questionnaire that asked about everything from their willingness to support smokefree parks to how they would handle a query from a constituent grappling with secondhand smoke intrusion [...] What a great idea. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing that all apartments and condos in the city be required to come up with a policy on smoking and make it clear to prospective buyers and tenants. He stresses that this is not, we repeat not, a ban. What would this law do? It would require [...] “It was not done the right way.” So says Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 1) about the D.C. Council’s inadvertent approval of online gambling, which was slipped into a budget bill by Councilmember Michael Brown (D-At Large). Flickr photo courtesy of aperryproductions The case of the convoluted budget amendment just got messier. Mayor Vincent Gray has vetoed a measure that was supposed to narrow a huge exemption to the smokefree workplaces law — an exemption that the D.C. Council passed in June without public notice. (They claimed it was an accident.) However, because [...] |
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