It Only Took About 20 Years for the U.S. to Turn Smokers into Pariahs The public smoking ban is a relatively recent invention. The first outdoor ban identified by the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation was put in place in 1975 in Yolo County, Calif., which outlawed smoking in all public parks. The idea didn't exactly take off. Another two decades would go by before the policy — in public parks, on beaches, in children's playgrounds — would spread around ...
July 10, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News