Florida GOP lawmaker wants to ban smoking on streets, but supports legalizing marijuana

Florida GOP state Sen. Joe Gruters has floated a bill that would prohibit people from lighting up on streets if a measure to legalize weed is passed later this year.

Smoking in indoor workplaces is already banned in the Sunshine State, while cities and counties have the ability to restrict smoking at beaches and parks that they own.  Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.

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"As a member of the Senate in Florida and the guy who — I'm not a big fan of smoking of any kind anywhere — I think it infringes on my quiet enjoyment when I'm out in public. And what we don't want to see is what's happened in Vegas, in New York with smoking on the streets," Gruters said, per NBC2. "The main feedback I got, because obviously, when I came out for Amendment 3, was, nobody likes the smoke, right? People don't want to go outside and smell it. They don't want to see it in public places."