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# Smoking banned on sidewalks?
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/smoking-banned-on-sidewalks-editor/
- Published: 2004-05-03T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:16:25.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Pier, #archive-import

*By David Holtzman Santa Monica*

Now that Santa Monica’s beach and pier smoking ban is “a done deal,” as you reported last week, it’s time to go after smoking on the city’s sidewalks. It makes little sense that drinking alcohol there is punished while smoking there is not. Exposure to sidewalk smoking probably causes bodily health harm, not merely spiritual degradation.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 3, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/050304.pdf?ref=smdp.com)