Well, from my experience of smoking in public places within Washington, be it parks, at the evidence impound lots, on the side of roads, middle of the freeway, most of the officers will not say a damn thing. I actually asked them a few times different officers and they all told me the same thing. It is not their problem, it is a DOH problem and they could not be hassled with it. However if smoking leads to a fight or a huge dispute they would have to act. Makes sense to me, I just suggest if you do smoke in public to do so respectfully and not give them any reason to bug you. Respect the 25 foot rule in front of buildings, and such.
Washington Smoking Laws: Advice for Enjoying a Smoke?
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Info for those of us who weren't in before the deletion?
I will be in Seattle and Tacoma twards the end of next month. Unless I'm indoors, I plan to smoke my pipe whenever and wherever I please.
Best policy right there. I do all the time and never had any issues other than the occasional stink eye. More often, though, is the friendly conversation about the smell reminding someone of grandpa. No biggie. Enjoy!
If I was in the Continental USA, and smoking was being clamped down hard in my area, I would see if there were any Native American Reservations, no joke.
1. Are the Reservations still under their own laws?
2. Smoking in Native American culture was/is ceremonial and religious, so freedom of religion.
3. You meet and make some nice smoking buddies this way.
This might sound stupid to some, but the way I still understand it, the Native Americans Reservations will be outside USA law in regards to smoking.
I seriously doubt the Washington police, sheriffs, etc., are going on American Indian Reservations and telling them they can’t smoke. LOL
Of course a lot of American Indians have turned away from smoking too.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained…
Here, I did some homework…
en.wikipedia.org
1. Are the Reservations still under their own laws?
2. Smoking in Native American culture was/is ceremonial and religious, so freedom of religion.
3. You meet and make some nice smoking buddies this way.
This might sound stupid to some, but the way I still understand it, the Native Americans Reservations will be outside USA law in regards to smoking.
I seriously doubt the Washington police, sheriffs, etc., are going on American Indian Reservations and telling them they can’t smoke. LOL
Of course a lot of American Indians have turned away from smoking too.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained…
Here, I did some homework…
List of Indian reservations in Washington - Wikipedia
Washington Indian Tribes and Languages
Information on the Native American tribes of Washington, with maps, reservation addresses, classroom activities and recommended history books.
www.native-languages.org
I've lived in Seattle and Tacoma. Anyone who wants to smoke, and there are many, smoke anything they want, wherever they want. In Seattle the police were told years ago to not bother anyone smoking marijuana in public.
WA state and Seattle have all sorts of weird laws that they have no intention of enforcing. Tacoma is a free-for-all in almost every regard imaginable. I like it quite a bit.
WA state and Seattle have all sorts of weird laws that they have no intention of enforcing. Tacoma is a free-for-all in almost every regard imaginable. I like it quite a bit.
Short answer = yes.
In fact, the only smoking accessible lounges for cigars/pipes in Pierce County (Tacoma area) are both on reservation land.
The only one place i know of that has a private lounge off reservation in Thurston County (just south in the Olympia area) is Cigar Daddys. They get around it by having the smoking area as a separate facility from the storefront in what i think is an old, converted garage out back.
The Seattle pipe club holds their meetings at Smokey Joes in Fife which is actually on Indian land.If I was in the Continental USA, and smoking was being clamped down hard in my area, I would see if there were any Native American Reservations, no joke.
1. Are the Reservations still under their own laws?
2. Smoking in Native American culture was/is ceremonial and religious, so freedom of religion.
3. You meet and make some nice smoking buddies this way.
This might sound stupid to some, but the way I still understand it, the Native Americans Reservations will be outside USA law in regards to smoking.
I seriously doubt the Washington police, sheriffs, etc., are going on American Indian Reservations and telling them they can’t smoke. LOL
Of course a lot of American Indians have turned away from smoking too.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained…
Here, I did some homework…
List of Indian reservations in Washington - Wikipedia
Washington Indian Tribes and Languages
Information on the Native American tribes of Washington, with maps, reservation addresses, classroom activities and recommended history books.www.native-languages.org
Oooh nice, I wonder if it’s there for these exact reasons, away from the white man’s laws… LOL
So this is the place? Smokey Joe’s – BJs Bingo - https://bjs-bingo.com/smokey-joes/
That is the place and yes, that seems to be the reason for locating there. Originally in a grand old social club in Seattle but forced to move since legally, wait staff couldn't be "required" to operate in a room where people smoked.
I used to live in Bham but it’s been 8 years since I moved away. Wasn’t aware of a law like that. So you are saying you literally can’t walk down the street and enjoy a smoke? Does the same law apply to smoking actual marijuana?
I've seen quite a few guys smoking pipes in Downtown Olympia and nobody seemed to mind. Once I saw a guy light up his pipe as he walked out of the Tumwater Costco with his cart. I think as long as you smoke an aro or at least not an English it's pretty okay
It was Washington Initiative 901. It only applies to indoor establishments and 20' from entry ways. I was at a protest rally at Rain City Cigar when this hit the news. My friends and I were in an article showing us smoking. One fired up an Indian Chief just for the shock value.
I guess if you don’t show up looking like this with your pipe, you‘ll hopefully be fine.
I had an acquaintance (that's all you get in downtown Seattle) who used to sit outside the coffee shop with his dog, and smoke his pipe. One day I was approaching the coffee shop, about a block away, when I witnessed this: a 40-ish man walks up to my friend, yells at him, knocks the pipe out of his hand, then picks it up and literally walks to a gutter and drops it in (irretrievable). My friend never moved - just sat there looking sort of hurt. When I got to him I asked if he was okay and said I'd be a witness if he wanted to file a complaint. He said the guy lived in an apartment above the coffee shop and was mad because the smoke was drifting up into his apartment. He said the guy had warned him before, so he was fine with just forgetting about it. These days no one in Seattle sits outside a coffee shop or restaurant and smokes, but it's regularly done in outdoor seating areas at bars and no one complains.
Cancer rates dropping probably isn’t in the calculus, it’s more about personal liberties, as in the right not to have to smell or breathe tobacco smoke. And I get it. Smoke is not confined in the open, and the vast majority of the people are repelled by it.
But why not also ban cars since they pollute more than tobacco junkies.
Living in L.A., which I no longer do, will give you leather lungs.
I'm sure if it was weed that guy wouldn't have been phased but lord forbid you light up some Captain Black