Jump to full article: Channel 2000 (KCBS) (Los Angeles, CA), 2010-03-07
Intro: Smoking in unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County could soon be a much tougher proposition, as the Board of Supervisors is considering a number of new anti-smoking policies.
One of the proposals is to ban smoking in apartment complexes in unincorporated parts of the county.
"These are often old apartment buildings with poor ventilation and a smoker in one apartment ," said Board of Supervisors President Ken Yeager. "There smoke would just go right through the vents to people in the adjoining apartments."
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Yeager said they also want to reduce the number of stores selling tobacco.
"Unfortunately, a lot of these liquor stores that sell tobacco are much denser in low income areas," said Yeager. "I think there's a real target, not only for youth, but people in our minority communities, where unfortunately, smoking can be quite high."
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