Mr. Brooks said students are not gathering at the shopping center as much as they had. The ordinance covers any tobacco product, including cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and snuff. In Blue Ash, offenders often are cited to Referee's Court. Most of the time the punishment is work details. Oftentime, the smoking is in connection with some other offense.
Officers can use their own judgment if they see a kid with a cigarette or smoking one.
The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.