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Orange County Mayor Richard T. Crotty

Orlando, Florida - Apparently without any public hearings or prior publicity, Orange County Mayor Richard T. Crotty secretly signed an executive order late last year that has kept tens of millions of dollars from pouring into the local economy. At the same time, the jobs of thousands of county workers are being threatened, according to the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association.

Crotty signed an executive order that prohibits tobacco use by anyone in any workplace or public area on or in county property. The order was effective January 1, 2010.

In addition, county employees are required to sign a ‘Tobacco Usage’ affidavit that swears they don’t smoke or be subject to a $25 fee per pay period - up to $650 per year. The alternative is for the employees who choose to smoke more than four cigars per year to quit their jobs.


“This is an outrageous misuse of power and should be overturned as soon as possible. It goes way beyond the Florida Clean Indoor Air Act and may well be illegal because of that. Smokers and non-smokers alike should demand that the order be rescinded and that their politicians stop telling them how to live their lives,” said Jeff Borysiewicz, owner of Corona Cigar Company in Orlando, Florida and Board member of the IPCPR.

 

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He pointed out that tourists and local citizens alike can’t smoke or use any tobacco product on county property - indoors or outdoors.

“That includes the Convention Center, county-owned sidewalks, parking lots, streets, public parks, boat ramps and docks and other county buildings, indoors or out,” said Borysiewicz who has been working to bring the IPCPR convention to Orlando but has hit a brick wall with the mayor’s draconian smoking ban.

“This convention alone attracts some 5,000 attendees and generates an estimated $10 million in economic impact wherever it is held. Imagine how many other conventions, meetings, visitors and tourists are deterred from coming to Orlando or any of the cities in Orange County because of this extreme ban,” he said.

The IPCPR has more than 2,000 members worldwide, nearly 300 of which are located throughout the state of Florida. Most of the members are owners of mom-and-pop neighborhood cigar stores.

“The Mayor apparently has a cozy relationship with well-funded anti-smoking organizations when it comes to allowing people to use legal tobacco products that generate massive amounts of taxes that benefit state and federal government programs like children’s healthcare. Ironically, soon after he signed the order, Orlando County received nearly $7 million in federal stimulus funds that went to the county health department to prevent tobacco usage instead of being used to create jobs,” he added.

Borysiewicz urged all Orange County residents to show their opposition to this executive order by calling, writing or sending emails to County Mayor Crotty and Commissioners S. Scott Boyd, Fred Brummer, Linda Stewart, Bill Segal and Tiffany Moore Russell.

Here is a Copy of the Ordinance.

Remember to tell these lawmakers that “enjoying luxury tobacco is not a crime!”
Email: Mayor Crotty

Telephone: 407-836-7370

Fax: 407-836-7360

Postal Address:

County Mayor Richard Crotty

201 S. Rosalind Ave., 5th Floor

Orlando, FL  32801
Email:
Commissioner Boyd

Telephone: 407-836-7350

Fax: 407-836-5879

Postal Address:

Commissioner S. Scott Boyd

201 S. Rosalind Ave., 5th Floor

Orlando, FL  32801
Email:
Commissioner Brummer

Telephone: 407-836-7350

Fax: 407-836-5879

Postal Address:

Commissioner Fred Brummer

201 S. Rosalind Ave., 5th Floor

Orlando, FL  32801
Email:
Commissioner Stewart

Telephone: 407-836-7350

Fax: 407-836-5935

Postal Address:

Commissioner Linda Stewart

201 S. Rosalind Ave., 5th Floor

Orlando, FL  32801
Email:
District5@ocfl.net

Telephone: 407-836-7350

Fax: 407-836-5879

Postal Address:

Commissioner Bill Segal

201 S. Rosalind Ave., 5th Floor

Orlando, FL  32801
Email:
Commissioner Moore
Russell

Telephone: 407-836-7350

Fax: 407-836-5879

Postal Address:

Commissioner Tiffany Moore Russell

201 S. Rosalind Ave., 5th Floor

Orlando, FL  32801
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9 Responses to “Orange County Smoking Ban May Be Illegal”

  1. cortezattic said:

    Thanks for bringing to our attention yet another obscene abuse of power. He must have been taking lessons in draconian dictatorship from Chicago’s Mayor Daley.

    May 28th, 2010 at 10:02 am

  2. Bob said:

    I just heard a little bit about this yesterday evening.

    What he did should be, and in my opinion, is illegal! I am so sick of all of this sneaking through of anti-tobacco “laws”. With all of the other things going wrong in the world, the governments are still only worried about making people stop smoking. It makes me sick!

    May 28th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

  3. furandfeather said:

    Let’s form a lynch mob - we can be draconian too right?

    May 29th, 2010 at 4:12 am

  4. birmingham0irish said:

    I agree that this measure is stupid.

    However, I am offended by the Hitler comparison in the photo. Yes, what this idiot is doing is Un-American. But it doesn’t compare with ordering millions of Jews, homosexuals, Russians, American POW’s, and political dissidents to die in gas chambers. I’m shocked and offended that Pipesmagazine has gotten a case of “Hitler tourretes syndrome” that not only cheapens the content of the article, but also undermines the millions that actually lost their lives, and the millions of soldiers who died, to face Nazism 60 years ago.

    Mr. Tate, can we please have some decorum on this site?

    June 8th, 2010 at 2:24 am

  5. Kevin said:

    Raymond, Bob didn’t post this or make the Hitler comparison in the photo. I did.

    I am sorry if you are offended. You are entitled to your opinion.

    I am entitled to exercise my First Amendment rights as well.

    I am not by any means, insensitive to the Holocaust, or anti-Semitic.

    I am not Jewish myself, but a good friend of mine is, a gentleman mature enough to remember the Holocaust, he is in his late 60’s, Jewish and a cigar smoker.

    He had no problem with this when I showed it to him.

    It is well documented that Hitler was vehemently anti-smoking.

    Are there some approved uses and disapproved uses of a Nazi comparison? I find it often in many places on a daily basis.

    Do you object to the “Soup Nazi” reference on Seinfeld?

    I am not making a mockery of the holocaust.

    The manner in which many people try to control what we do by stopping us from smoking should be described as Nazi-like because it is.

    The next thing they will tell us is which books to read or not to read.

    I have a tremendous love for personal freedoms, have a live and let live philosophy, but a complete disdain for political-correctness.

    I stand by what I posted and the images I used.

    June 8th, 2010 at 10:47 am

  6. Jerry said:

    as far as the “Hitler” comparison…..GET OVER IT……perfect example as far as im concerned

    June 11th, 2010 at 11:12 am

  7. collindow said:

    I’m so happy that I don’t live in Florida.
    But I live in Oregon…so it won’t be too long before the radical anti-smoking fascists get something like that passed here.

    August 14th, 2010 at 2:12 am

  8. amber said:

    i think this is just rediculous!!! i live in michigan and we to have a smoking ban but it is noT nearly as bad. the government should be more worried about more important things like getting more jobs out there for everyone then to worry about an issue as silly as smoking. i am a smoker and i feel for the non smokers but we have a right in this world too. it is our choice to smoke and we should not be put aside and segragated. it reminds me of the slavery days when the blacks were put to shame cause of their skin color…..come on america…GET REAL!!!

    September 22nd, 2010 at 11:13 pm

  9. Orange county property said:

    What he did should be, and in my opinion, is illegal! I am so sick of all of this sneaking from beginning to end of anti-tobacco “laws”. With all of the other stuff going wrong in the world, the governments are still only anxious about making people stop smoking. It makes me sick!

    March 13th, 2011 at 11:44 pm

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