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Proving once again that you can’t ever get ahead of San Francisco-style liberalism, the city council of wealthy Bay Area bedroom community Belmont has written an anti-smoking ordinance so draconian, it makes new ads by the American Legacy Foundation and the Ad Council obsolete. Just as Jason Alexander’s first Ad Council / Legacy spots hit the air (watch them on DontPassGas.org), imploring smokers to take it outside, the Belmont council believes that’s not good enough: Under the proposed ordinance, no one in Belmont may smoke anywhere except inside detached single-family dwellings (not even in condos or apartments—only in the $15,000 tractk homes now fetching $750,000).
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