Greenbelt Vents About Smoking Ban

On the heels of Greenbelt City Council's Aug. 3 work session, with , Greenbelters and Roosevelt Center patrons showed they are less united than city government on the issue.

Although it was further back in history, Brian is correct. At times women have been forbidden to smoke — in 1908, for example, New York City banned women from smoking in public.

And there's more. After New York City forbid smoking in outdoor spaces this May, History.com published a timeline with four centuries of smoking bans, beginning in 1590 with Pope Urban VII, who stated anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church whether by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe, or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose" would risk excommunication.