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# Letter to Editor
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-to-editor-11/
- Published: 2016-11-22T16:30:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-27T22:36:11.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, daily press editor, daily press letter, editor, joey hoover, Letter to editor, santa monica daily press, smoking, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 14:35

Dear Editor,

I am a 7th grader at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica and also a Boy Scout in Troop 223\. After reading the article by Gary Rhoades, Deputy City Attorney, about smoking illegally in a multi-unit apartment complex (November 9, 2016), I was infuriated as to why someone would be so callous to another person for a very wrong reason. Not only is this man, Rudy, breaking the law, but also putting a small girl’s life in danger. And he is just a small part of a larger population of smokers in Santa Monica. Everywhere I go whether it be The Cove Skatepark, Montana Avenue or The Promenade, people are smoking and I become a second hand smoker instantly. It is not only bad to breath in the smoke, but it is also pollution, and I want to keep Santa Monica’s air clean. For these reasons, I believe smoking should be completely forbidden in Santa Monica, and anybody who disobeys this law should be fined a good amount of money.

Sincerely,

Joey Hoover