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Jump to full article: Long Beach (CA) Press-Telegram, 2009-11-12
Author: Paul Eakins, Staff Writer
Intro: Figuring out a way to allow existing smoking lounges to continue in Long Beach yet prevent more from opening is easier said than done, a City Council panel learned Wednesday afternoon.
The three-member Economic Development and Finance Committee got a first look at new regulations for smoking lounges, which the council voted to legalize in February, 15 years after Long Beach's groundbreaking ban on smoking in public places and workplaces went into effect. The full council will consider the lounge regulations next Tuesday.
The committee voted 2-1, with Councilwoman Rae Gabelich opposed, to recommend that the council approve the proposed regulations with a few changes, but was forced to stop short of implementing controls to prevent new smoking lounges from opening.
"You are old enough to make your own decisions," Gabelich said to several cigar lounge owners who attended Wednesday's meeting, "but I do not want any more of these anywhere in the city."
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