He wants to ban it from church plaza and city sidewalks
Jump to full article: Deseret News, 2002-10-27
Author: Brady Snyder / Deseret News staff writer
Intro: Mayor Rocky Anderson is on the warpath, and cigarettes are in the cross hairs.
Anderson plans to ban smoking from the Main Street Plaza of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he develops plaza restrictions in the coming weeks.
And while that ban is designed to appease the plaza's owners — the LDS Church — Anderson looks to spread anti-smoking laws to other city locales, including public sidewalks. . .
Stephen Clark, an attorney who represented the American Civil Liberties Union in a lawsuit challenging speech and conduct restrictions on the plaza, said he isn't concerned with smoking restrictions.
"The ACLU and its clients did not file this lawsuit against smoking or sunbathing," he said. "We filed this lawsuit based on freedom of expression and freedom of speech."
To focus on smoking "trivializes the issues that are at stake here," Clark said.
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