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# Smoking invasion
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/smoking-invasion-editor/
- Published: 2008-04-12T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T19:14:35.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By James Lowe Santa Monica*

I just finished the article on the possibility of Santa Monica making it a law that people cannot smoke in their apartments (“City considers new smoking laws,” page 1, April 10). I realize that may be some time away, but I just have to say that with all the other more urgent matters facing our city, I am, and continued to be baffled by our City Council’s obsession with cigarettes and smoking … People have always smoked, and always will smoke.

The government tried getting people to stop drinking in the ‘30s with prohibition. As they learned, people found a way to get alcohol and to drink. The same thing will happen with cigarette smoking … We have an enormous list of things we need to accomplish.

Worrying about whether people smoke in their homes or apartments or not, is in my view, a complete waste of time and an invasion of privacy. If cigarette smoke bothers someone they should move somewhere where there isn’t any. I have to ask these people who are so worried about cigarette smoke, why do they live in one of the most polluted cities in the entire world?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 12, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/041208.pdf?ref=smdp.com)