August 6, 2014 Charlie Minato Regulations,  Smoking Bans

Covington, La. Approves Expansion of Public Smoking Ban

Last night, the Covington City Council voted unanimously for an expansion of the Louisiana city’s smoking ban. The revised rule will allow the city to ban smoking at parks and other outdoor public areas at its discretion. Under the new rule, the mayor will now be able to ban smoking at these places without having to seek further approval from the City Council.

Its current mayor, Mike Cooper, said he is likely to designate recreation areas as smoke free zones. It will establish a 25-foot smoke-free permitter around the entrance of any public building, as well as ban smoking in city vehicles.

Covington is located in St. Tammany parish in the eastern part of the state. It has a population under 10,000.

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Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.

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