A proposal from San Diego City Council would ban outdoor smoking and vaping within 25 feet of diners, creating broader rules for restaurant patios in a city where businesses have been able to set their own policies.<\/p>\n
While many cities across San Diego County already have widespread bans on outdoor smoking, San Diego does not. The proposal would establish a citywide standard for smoking and vaping near diners.<\/p>\n
Crazy Wings N Fries owner Julio Ortiz said it would be nice to have a smoke free patio.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a time when I had a family sitting, eating and then this guy started smoking, and the family was really bothered. So I told the guy would you please step out outside of the patio.\u201d<\/p>\n
Diners who smoke or vape also said they would be comfortable with the proposed restriction.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people are eating, it’s probably not such a great thing because it would affect the way they taste their food,\u201d diner Raleigh Levandowski said. \u201cAnd I’m a vaper.\u201d<\/p>\n
Diner Christine Levandowski said she does not think people should have to be around cigarette smoke while eating in a public setting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve never been a smoker, so to me, it’s kind of offensive to be around smoking and I don’t think it should be put on me in a group public environment where you’re trying to enjoy a meal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Councilmember Jennifer Campbell’s office says 78 percent of surveyed city of San Diego residents support the ban, along with 88 percent of restaurant professionals.<\/p>\n
The proposal would exempt adult-only bars and nightclubs, as well as private areas closed to the public.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC San Diego. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC San Diego journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposal from San Diego City Council would ban outdoor smoking and vaping within 25 feet of diners,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[412,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-473798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-restaurants","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}