Gov. Terminator vetoed a CA state smoking ban that would have prohibited smoking at beaches and Sate parks......as too intrusive in people's lives....

Ya Think! Smoking OUTSIDE! Finally a lucid thought.

Bravo Arnie!!

Hey, this is California so this fight ain't over yet - don't celebrate too soon! Arnie will be out of office soon and the next governor may jump all over that bandwagon.

California: The State of fruits and nuts........

I'm not allowed to smoke on the beach at my in-laws' house in Solana Beach, CA. A local ordinance was passed prohibiting it.

They were all bent out of shape because there were "too many cigarette butts" littering the sidewalks and gutters. I asked why they couldn't just enforce the litter laws... and the locals glared at me.

So I threw my cigar on the ground and mashed the pure tobacco leaves to dust with a smile.

ScottHar

Don't get me started on this, Har...

I've cleaned up the beaches with the Surfrider Foundation. They actually do test counts of the cigarette butts so they can say things like "we picked up 300,000 cigarette butts." And from what I have seen, those numbers are accurate.

Then these quotes get thrown around the city council chambers in places like Solana Beach as proof that people are throwing cigarettes on the beach.

But you know what? Surfrider folks admitted to me that almost all of the butts they pick up are washed down the storm drains from the streets and they end up on the beach. They don't start out there.

But Surfrider doesn't want to stop the smoking bans, so they just shut up about this.

those bassards!

I am allowed to smoke at different places

this paves the way for smoking pot in the capitol.