"Dear Sirs -"

Daily Breeze 5/23/19

Redondo Beach public smoking ban a bad idea

Re "Redondo Beach closer to public smoking ban, including e-cigarettes and cannabis"  May 8

Dear Sirs:
I think the Redondo Beach City Council is being rather short-sighted regarding this proposed draconian no-smoking policy.  It would effectively kill the recent BeachLife Festival, which by all accounts was a roaring success and by all of the visitors (who smoke) and are turned off and out of Manhattan and Hermosa Beach.

I doubt that summer merchants and restaurant owners will be thrilled.  Please don't recite the dubious "research" that would have us all dead and lying motionless, buried under tons of cigarette butts.  This kind of oversight of any practicalities reminds one unfavorably of the ill-fated "bullet train."

Sincerely, Nina Murphy
Redondo Beach