While I'd appreciate not having to walk through someone else's smoke, they should have every right to pollute their own bodies if they so choose, so if you are going to ban such smoking around building entrances, etc. I think you should provide a convenient designated smoking area that they can use.

People who "need" to smoke can find private areas for their habit. I don't think they should have the right to make our lives filled with their habit / smoke.

I don't care if people smoke. I just want them to respect the area I am in and let me make the decision on if I want to breath in their smoke. They want respect and rights. So do non smokers. We should work together and come up with a plan or a solution. IDEA: Make one end of the building for non smokers. Thats were they come in and out. Make the other end of the building for smokers. Were they come in and out. That way both are taken care of. Thanks for asking.

Please do keep it away from doorways, seating areas, etc. Smoking is not a right, so deserves no special accommodation.

It's not too much to politely ask people who smoke/vape to do so where their behavior does not have a negative impact on others. As a smoker, I acknowledge that my rights don't supersede those of the non-smoking public.

I think it's fair to ask people to smoke or vape a reasonable distance from a county building. Folks that smoke or vape have a right to do that, but others also have a right not to have to breathe that when they are heading into a public building.

The Survey did not allow the option of how far away from the building you can smoke. I do not like smoking outside the doors of the building or in areas where people need to walk to get into the building. I feel they should be aloud to smoke in the parking lot as long as you do not have to walk through the smoke to get into the building. They have the right to smoke as much as I have the right to not inhale their smoke.

Smoking is such an unhealthy activity that by allowing it to occur right outside County Office Doors, it’s almost as if Placer Co. is endorsing it. I think for the health of everyone, smoking should not be allowed in front of, behind, or near county buildings. As a former smoker, I have been on both sides of the doorway, so to speak...this is about basic public health.

Though I respect a persons right to choose to smoke I don't believe smokers respect my right to breath clean air. Any government building should be smoke free within 20 feet of the building

I don’t enjoy smelling someone’s smoke but it is their right to smoke outdoors.

I personally think that smoking shouldn't be allowed where people congregate or by doors. I do believe smokers have a right but give them an area away from the buildings to have there smoke.

My son and I just went to the Roseville Galleria mall and got choked by smokers in front of the entrance. I hate taking my child through any smoke-filled area just to enter or exit a building. I make him hold his breath, but we always inhale some smoke and I feel like that is infringing on my rights and my child's health.

Like everything else, accommodations can and should be made where everyone's rights and considerations can be represented as best as is possible. Figure that out. Smoking is legal AND people shouldn't be subject to other's smoke. Usually people are respectful and, in fact, self segregate or move when asked if in public. Is a new rule really necessary or punitive?

I believe all of us have a right to healthy air. People who smoke can go sit in their car to smoke. For me, there is no public place where smoking of vaping should be allowed.

I think smoker should have a designated area. So they feel part of the company. Smoker have rights too!

I would heartily support this. One's right to smoke should not impinge on my right to fresh air....a healthier community goal. The smoker/vaper can express his/her rights in areas that do not effect mine.

I don't want to prohibit smoking but right outside doors always brings smoke into the building.

Is it right to restrict the rights of some people in order to ensure the rights of others? At what point does it stop being a represented democracy and start becoming socialist or communist or marxist or dictatorship? At first, the rule was no smoking within 50 feet of any open door or window. Now smoking is being confined to a section of a property. Some city's have outlawed it in public, even on sidewalks. What happened to home of the free and land of the brave, now it's home of the free unless I don't like it, in that case i'll make it illegal for you? Enough is enough.

Please consider banning all smoke or vapor inducing activities for any and all venues. Second hand smoke kills; second hand vaping is an unknown risk; and no one should have the right to pollute the air we all must breathe.

Smoking or vaping outside of any building or structure should be prohibited. We don't pay for our air . We have the right to breath clean air. Cigarettes are something someone pays for and they are a habit. They should not be allowed to take my right of breathing clean air away.

Build smoking covers at least 50' from doorways. It is annoying for someone to smoke right up to the doors. Even better, no smoking on county property! Bob Lundin, Lincoln

I agree with not allowing people to smoke within 20 feet of a doorway but to say they can’t smoke in a parking lot or on the sidewalk is just ridiculous! That’s overstepping boundaries! Smokers have rights too, they pay an exorbitant amount of taxes to this state! More and more rights being taken away from people! People treat smokers like lepers! Corral them to a corner, people will still find a way to smoke and now that you won’t have designated smoking areas with ash trays, cigarettes will be littered

I don't like cigarette smoke but people have a right to smoke. I have no problem with people smoking outside.

We do not need to have laws against a persons whom chose to exercise their rights even if that right is to smoke. They are outside? Correct?

I believe smoking anywhere there is a public right-away should be prohibited. It is a public nuisance. Vaping just takes smoking and amplifies it 10X.

I detest smokers, but they do have a right to smoke. There should be convenient spots outside County buildings for them to smoke.

I would vote to eliminate smoking outside all entrances and exits. I would not be able to take the rights of others, to practice a legal activity all the way out to the parking lot. And I don't think this kind of law should be instututed strictly because its a county facility. All private and public entrances and exits should be smoke free, in my opinion.

I am a former smoker, smoking cigarettes for over 30 years, until I quit cold turkey after having a heart attack and 5 way bypass surgery in 1995. So I see both sides of the issue. As a smoker, there is the feeling that their rights are being stomped on, because smoking is not illegal, if you are an adult. If you continue to restrict the places that someone can smoke, then just make them all illegal and be done with it. There needs to be a balance between the rights of the non smoker, and the rights of the smoker. Even making designated smoking areas doesn't work, because the smoke is carried on the wind, and can go anywhere. Also, I question the validity of the studies about second hand smoke, when you are dealing with smokers outside. The wind will dissipate the smoke, lessening the impact of it the farther a person is away from it. But, if you make a designated area for smokers, at least make it sheltered, so they can be out of the wind and rain.

You lost me at sidewalks and parking lots. How about we just increase the distance from doors and windows? Currently it's at least 20 feet and on a breezy day that's just not far enough away. If we take away people's right to smoke in parking lots or sidewalks or just taking away too much. I don't question someone's right to smoke I do question their will to live. Let's just provide them smoking areas that are far enough away from people's cars and building windows and doors so that places of business don't smell too smokey. Perhaps we could install small decontamination booths to blow the cigarette smoke off of them before they entered the building?

These people have rights just like the methheads........Smoking outside in a designated area does not offend me.

Smoking is a serious health issue. Nobody has the right to smoke around me or my family and effect our health in a negative way.

Please protect my right to clean air by keeping smokers away from your building entrance

Why take people's rights away from them

Our right to breathe clean air out weighs the rights of smokers or vapers to blow their second hand toxins in public areas exposing us to harm that is preventable.

Just make sure that they are right next to the door, but at least 20-30 ft away.

Clarification - Citizens have a right to smoke. BUT they should not smoke where other citizens have to walk to enter a County building. I don't care if the smoke in the parking lot but should not do so at the entrance, walkway to the entrance etc. They could go off the beaten track. It is a free country as long as you do not infringe on other's rights. But they have the right to do so away from others.

Smokers have rights too. Smoking outside should be allowed

While I don't like and do fear the effects of secondhand smoke, I also want to give a nod to the feelings and "rights" of smokers and vapers. It would be good to designate a place for their use, if possible.

Smoking of vaping is an individual choice and fully legal. Discriminating against people who choose to smoke or vape is an infringement of their personal rights and liberties. I support fewer laws (regulations), lower taxes, and smaller government.