Thursday August 17th in Ocean Beach. The 6th annual event embraces grassroots activism and calls for our supporters to raise awareness about the Hold On To Your Butt anti-cigarette litter campaign. We need your help: Between 4 and 6pm we will be at various intersections in the Ocean Beach area and need volunteers to hold our hand made awareness signs and to help with street sweeps to cleanup the areas. In addition we will be holding a morning press conference to unveil our new outdoor ashtrays for OB and to remind the public and raise awareness about the smoking ban for San Diego City beaches and parks that takes effect that day. If you are interested in helping, please email
bill@surfridersd.org or
click here The San Diego Union Tribune reminds us:
Smoking ban kicks in tomorrow Take your last puff, smokers who like to barbecue or bodysurf at city parks and beaches. Tomorrow, San Diego's ban on smoking begins. Smokers can be fined $250 or more if caught by a lifeguard or park ranger. Some exceptions are leased properties on city land - such as the San Diego Zoo, which will continue to allow lighting up in designated areas. The mayor's office is studying what, if any, other exceptions might be allowed and plans to decide in November.
Because of a glitch in the no-smoking ordinance approved in June, the ban doesn't cover some beach boardwalks, including paved walkways at Mission Beach and Pacific Beach.
City Council President Scott Peters wants to close that loophole by amending the ordinance, probably this fall, his spokeswoman said.
Don't expect the cigarette patrol to swoop in with ticket books blazing tomorrow at sunrise. City lifeguards probably will write citations only after first alerting people to the new law and then issuing a second warning if the Camel or Cohiba isn't extinguished right away.
"I don't anticipate that will happen very frequently. People are pretty willing to comply," said San Diego Lifeguard Capt. Rick Wurts, who said other cities with smoking bans report that warnings work. Also, a lifeguard's first job is to prevent drowning, not smoking, Wurts said. "It's not going to be at the top of the priority list," he said.
To help promote the new smoke-free atmosphere, the San Diego chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is installing 30 outdoor ashtrays along Ocean Beach.
The rust-proof stainless steel receptacles are meant to encourage people to snuff out before hitting the sand and to address cigarette butt litter, cited by the City Council as a major reason behind the ban.
The ashtray installation is a pilot program by Surfrider, and the group hopes to expand it to other beach areas throughout the county, said chapter coordinator Bill Hickman. Surfrider volunteers also will hand out personal ashtrays in Ocean Beach tomorrow afternoon as part of an effort to raise awareness of cigarette butts littering the beach.
The city joins more than 30 California locales that have outlawed smoking in one place or another, after Solana Beach was the first to ban smoking at beaches in 2003. Earlier this month, San Diego passed an ordinance banning smoking inside Qualcomm Stadium.
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