(A) Findings. The City Council finds that:
(1) Smoking of tobacco or any other weed or plant, and the use of electronic smoking devices is a positive danger to health and a material annoyance, inconvenience, discomfort, and a health hazard to those who are present in confined spaces;
(2) Numerous studies have found that tobacco smoke is a major contributor to indoor air pollution;
(3) Reliable studies have shown that breathing secondhand smoke is a significant health hazard for certain population groups including elderly people, individuals with cardiovascular disease, and individuals with impaired respiratory function, including asthmatics and those with obstructive airway disease;
(4) Health hazards induced by breathing secondhand smoke include lung cancer, respiratory infection, decreased exercise tolerance, decreased respiratory function, bronchoconstriction and bronchospasm; and
(5) Non smokers with allergies, respiratory diseases, and those who suffer other ill effects of breathing secondhand smoke may experience a loss of job productivity or may be forced to take periodic sick leave because of adverse reactions to the same.
(B) Purposes. Based upon the above findings, the City Council declares that the purposes of this chapter are:
(1) To strike a reasonable balance between the needs of smokers and the need of non smokers to breathe smoke free air, and to recognize that where these needs conflict, the need to breathe smoke free air shall have priority;
(2) To provide for the public health, safety, and welfare, by protecting the public from nonconsensual exposure to secondhand smoke in and around residents homes; and
(3) To prohibit the smoking of tobacco or any weed or plant, and the use of electronic smoking devices in buildings and vehicles owned, leased, or occupied by the City of Corona.
(`78 Code, § 8.02.010.) (Ord. 3365 § 1 (part), 2023; Ord. 3244 § 10, 2016; Ord. 1975 § 1 (part), 1990.)