Is Smoking Ban Working?

Another Gulf Coast city is banning smoking. On Monday night, Spanish Fort voted to make it illegal to smoke in public buildings (minus bars) . If you want to smoke outside the building, you better step 20 feet away.

More than a dozen South Alabama cities have jumped on the no smoking bandwagon. Two years ago, Bayou La Batre passed a similar ordinance. We checked with the South Mobile County city only to find out that not a single ticket has been written.

Mayor Stan Wright says it's not that the law isn't being enforced, people are policing themselves. "Since then, I don't know of any problems. No citations have been written. Nobody's been in trouble and nobody has been reprimanded."

If someone gets a smoking ticket in Bayou La Batre, the fines start at 50 dollars. As for Spanish Fort, their smoking ban goes into effect in 3 months.