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• Los Angeles to consider smoking ban on beaches 

Not to be outdone by a little town in San Diego County, Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss introduced a motion Tuesday that would ban smoking on all Los Angeles beaches.

"It shouldn't be considered socially acceptable to go to the beach and puff away around families and then flick your cigarette butt into the sand," said Weiss, who added that he and his children spent hours "picking up other people's cigarette butts" at a beach cleanup a few weeks ago.

So when he read last week that the town of Solano Beach had become the first city in California to ban smoking on its 1.4-mile strip of sand, he decided to bring the idea to Los Angeles. His motion, which was endorsed by Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski, asks the council to direct the city attorney to write a law banning smoking on city beaches and adjacent areas. A council committee will review the idea, and then the full council could vote on the matter in the next several weeks.

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