PANEL BACKS ANTI-SMOKING ORDINANCE
The city won't keep smokers from lighting up in their apartments.
Not yet, anyway.
The City Council's public-safety committee recommended 3 to 1
this week that Oakland ban smoking at bus stops, in parks and on
golf courses, on public trails and while waiting in line for
movie tickets or at ATMs, among other places.
But the committee removed the two most controversial aspects of
the anti-smoking proposal, which, if approved, would have been
one of the most sweeping anti-tobacco laws in the state.
