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The Hawaii County Council recently voted to ban smoking at Big Island parks and recreational areas. Should Maui County institute a similar ban ?
Yes, in all beach parks and recreational areas.
60%
Yes, but only in designated beach parks and recreational areas.
12%
No, smoking should be allowed in all beach parks and recreational areas.
28%
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Member Comments
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| duwekoolani2 | |
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03-17-08 8:20 PM
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let worry about cellphones instead of this B.S
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| jackFisher | |
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03-17-08 7:38 PM
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People with a weakness for the tobacco habit are addicts, in the same sense that other are addicted to alcohol, ******, cocaine, etc. As such they generally seem to have a lower level of conscious awareness than one would wish for. As a result, they seldom exhibit any restraint when the urge strikes, and we are left with the detritus: cigarette butts in their unnumbered profusion littering the streets, parking lots, beaches, sidewalks, highways, parks -- everywhere! It takes a low-life mentality to publicly discard cigarette butts -- and empty packs, as well -- every day, day in, day out. I make it a point not to associate with anyone who smokes cigarettes. None of my friends and acquaintances are smokers -- not one! Litter laws should be enforced, and litterers should be required to spend full work-days picking up cigarette butts by hand.
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| Sherry | |
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03-16-08 1:01 AM
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This is a big problem for our parks and recreation areas. Not only is the smoke something many people cannot be around, but the butts end up in our oceans and on our beaches. The smokers do not realize that the butts they leave laying around, might only be a few, but with all the smokers visiting the parks and recreation areas, that is thousands and thousands of butts in the water and they end up killing our fish and reefs. Stop the insanity and think about what you are doing to the environmant, let alone, to your health.
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| Concerned | |
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03-14-08 6:35 PM
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A better ban would be to prohibit all alcohol consumption from any public place. Smokers have never bothered me but drunken morons in our parks have.
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