by Tiffany Craig
Published: Tue, June 16, 2009 - 5:05 pm CST
Last Updated: Tue, June 16, 2009 - 6:03 pm CST
Another Gulf Coast city is banning smoking. On Monday night, Spanish Fort voted to make it illegal to smoke in public buildings (minus bars) . If you want to smoke outside the building, you better step 20 feet away.More than a dozen South Alabama cities have jumped on the no smoking bandwagon. Two years ago, Bayou La Batre passed a similar ordinance. We checked with the South Mobile County city only to find out that not a single ticket has been written.
Mayor Stan Wright says it's not that the law isn't being enforced, people are policing themselves. "Since then, I don't know of any problems. No citations have been written. Nobody's been in trouble and nobody has been reprimanded."
If someone gets a smoking ticket in Bayou La Batre, the fines start at 50 dollars. As for Spanish Fort, their smoking ban goes into effect in 3 months.
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