Gardena: Say "No" to No Cigars

The City of Gardena wants to limit the sale of single cigars within its city limits.

Is there no puritanical cause that municipal governments will avoid embarking on?

Granted, cigar smoking is a nasty habit, in some cases more dangerous than smoking cigarettes, but city police and enforcement services have enough issues to deal with.

From "The Daily Breeze"

The Gardena City Council ought to consider lowering property and sales taxes within its confines. A rise in private enterprise and an investment in safer communities would attract a different type of residency, one which very likely would not frequent tobacco shops.

The gang-banging element is still far too prevalent in a city which boasts a respectable diversity with high-performing schools. Police personnel deserve to implement their dwindling resources in the up-keep of public decency -- smoking a cigar is the least of most people's problems, no matter how smelly the habit.

Private non-smoking campaigns are the acceptable root for discouraging the vice of cigar-smoking. State power should be left to maintaining civil order, the enforcement of legal contracts, and protecting the natural and civil rights of the citizenry, which includes purchasing and smoking single cigars.