Redondo takes light touch on tobacco ban
The City of Redondo Beach is taking steps to discourage tobacco and electronic smoking use, though its tack appears to be less severe than that taken by neighboring Manhattan Beach. On Tuesday night, the Redondo Beach City Council directed staff to begin work on an anti-tobacco program that includes banning smoking and electronic smoking devices (also known as vapes) in public and creates a tobacco retailer license. Anti-tobacco ordinances have been an interest of Mayor Bill Brand since his time as District 2’s Council representative. “Everyone’s got to die of something, but you don’t need to die of lung cancer at an early age,” Brand said, referring to the death of his mother to cancer at age 55. “Especially kids – you’re developing lungs, brains, and I can’t imagine doing more harm singularly to yourself than smoking cigarettes. But hey, it’s a free country too.” As the Beach Cities Health District representative Lauren Nakano noted, a recent Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index indicates that smoking rates have fallen to 6.8 percent of the Redondo Beach population. Asian-American Drug Addiction Program representative Carol Almeda read a letter from Madison Bacon, who went…
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