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By Ruth Ingram
The city of Clinton's new smoking ban ordinance goes into effect in 30 days.
Aldermen on Tuesday approved the new law that prohibits smoking in public buildings, city-owned vehicles, schools, restaurants, bars, indoor and outdoor athletic facilities as well as day-care and health care facilities, theaters and at least 80 percent of hotel rooms.
The unanimous vote by the 7-member board comes after a July 1 public hearing to allow residents, business owners and others to voice comments about the proposed ordinance.
Clinton joins more than two dozen Mississippi cities with smoking bans in place.
Smoking is defined in the Clinton ordinance as "inhaling, exhaling, burning or carrying any lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or other lighted tobacco product in any manner or in any form."
Aldermen on Tuesday approved one change to the ordinance in its proposed form - a change that would strengthen it.
The new language prohibits smoking within 30 feet of a main entrance of any building governed by the ordinance.
"We've continued to receive comments" following the July 1 hearing, city attorney Ken Dreher said at the Tuesday meeting.
The new language was added, he said, "so you didn't have to fight your way through a number of smokers at the entrance" to a smoke-free building.
The law will carry a fine of $500 for violators and fines up to $500 for the facility owner or manager.
Alderman At-Large Jehu Brabham said the ongoing debate by those on both sides of the smoking issue "could go on from now until eternity, and probably no one would change their minds."
But in his mind, Brabham said, a deciding factor is what is said in the preamble to the nation's constitution.
"It says, 'We the people.' It doesn't say, 'I the people,' " Brabham said.
The nation's founders "realized you'd never have a perfect union if it was just based on individual rights," Brabham said.
"People have the right to go to a common area of space and not be subjected to smoke.
"Sometimes, I have to give up some of my 'I' to make a better 'we,' " he said. "I can defend that from a constitutional point as well as a health point."
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The city of Clinton's new smoking ban ordinance goes into effect in 30 days.
Aldermen on Tuesday approved the new law that prohibits smoking in public buildings, city-owned vehicles, schools, restaurants, bars, indoor and outdoor athletic facilities as well as day-care and health care facilities, theaters and at least 80 percent of hotel rooms.
The unanimous vote by the 7-member board comes after a July 1 public hearing to allow residents, business owners and others to voice comments about the proposed ordinance.
Clinton joins more than two dozen Mississippi cities with smoking bans in place.
Smoking is defined in the Clinton ordinance as "inhaling, exhaling, burning or carrying any lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or other lighted tobacco product in any manner or in any form."
Aldermen on Tuesday approved one change to the ordinance in its proposed form - a change that would strengthen it.
The new language prohibits smoking within 30 feet of a main entrance of any building governed by the ordinance.
"We've continued to receive comments" following the July 1 hearing, city attorney Ken Dreher said at the Tuesday meeting.
The new language was added, he said, "so you didn't have to fight your way through a number of smokers at the entrance" to a smoke-free building.
The law will carry a fine of $500 for violators and fines up to $500 for the facility owner or manager.
Alderman At-Large Jehu Brabham said the ongoing debate by those on both sides of the smoking issue "could go on from now until eternity, and probably no one would change their minds."
But in his mind, Brabham said, a deciding factor is what is said in the preamble to the nation's constitution.
"It says, 'We the people.' It doesn't say, 'I the people,' " Brabham said.
The nation's founders "realized you'd never have a perfect union if it was just based on individual rights," Brabham said.
"People have the right to go to a common area of space and not be subjected to smoke.
"Sometimes, I have to give up some of my 'I' to make a better 'we,' " he said. "I can defend that from a constitutional point as well as a health point."
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