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# Better bangers than smokers?
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/better-bangers-than-smokers-editor/
- Published: 2007-03-01T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:10:06.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Helen McRoskey Santa Monica*

I read (The Daily Press’) article about the city of Santa Monica’s proposal to prevent landlords from renting to smokers or allowing smoking in apartments (“Making SM smokeless a hot topic,” Feb. 26, page 1). If the city does that, then I hope it makes a law that landlords can’t rent to gang members or child molesters, because if a smoker can’t rent a Santa Monica apartment, then gang members and child molesters will have more rights than smokers.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 1, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/030107.pdf?ref=smdp.com)