Petition Drive Seeks to Overturn Smoking Law
A pro-smoking group has filed a 30,000-signature petition to overturn a strict anti-smoking ordinance recently passed by the Long Beach City Council.
If the petition is verified by the city clerk, it will go to the council, which will then have the choice of either rescinding the ordinance or placing it on the June, 1992, ballot. In the meantime, the ordinance will probably be suspended.
The Long Beach law, one of the toughest anti-smoking ordinances in the state, bans all smoking in restaurants as of Jan. 1, 1994. This year it requires restaurants to more than double their nonsmoking sections to two-thirds of seating capacity, prohibits smoking in all workplaces and city buildings, and bans tobacco billboard advertising near schools, hospitals, child care facilities and places of worship.
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