Last week, Folly Beach City Councilman Dave Stormer sent out a draft ordinance of a smoking ban to the other members of Council. The item will likely be on the agenda at Council’s May 27 meeting, just as North Charleston, the only other major municipality in the county without a ban, debates their own.
“I’m a proponent of it for lots of reasons,” says Stormer. “The purpose of a smoking ordinance is a worker health issue. Secondhand smoke has been determined by most scientific studies to have detrimental effects on the health of employees, and that’s the bottom line. You can say, ‘Well geez, they can go someplace and work where there is no smoking,’ but there’s only a couple of places where food service people can work on Folly that are in fact nonsmoking.”
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Nice shot of Eddie Ellis. He does not smoke, however, but apparently he has been spending too much time at the Dollar and not enough listening to his constituants on this issue.
I hope Folly Beach does ban smoking. The beach is known for being natural sanctuary, and who wants to be coughing through the smoke of somebody smoking sitting five feet from them? Many other beaches around the nation have banned smoking such as Solana and San Clemente beaches in California and Bethany beach in Delaware.