Only weeks after passing a law that makes having an open alcoholic container in public a misdemeanor offense, officials in Ocean City are revisiting a debate over whether or not to make parts of the beach off-limits to smokers.

The Dispatch reports that the beach town’s mayor and city council are moving towards creating smoke-free sections along the beach, two years after the subject was first broached but never fully acted upon:

A public hearing was held in December of 2010 when a ban on smoking on Ocean City’s beaches, Boardwalk and public parks was last debated.

A handful of speakers spoke for and against the question, but the current council decided to place butt cans and signage along the beach and the Boardwalk, providing smokers with smoking stations. It does not mandate smokers do it there, but it serves as a request for them to smoke within that area. As for public parks, the council voted to prohibit smoking in those areas.

“Probably the only way that you can direct people to certain areas so that they can use these containers is that if they weren’t able to smoke in the other areas, and I think it is a conversation we need to have again,” Meehan said. “Making our beach a smoke-free beach at some point in time is going to become a reality and I just think that’s the way our country is going and that is probably a good thing.”

Neighboring Bethany Beach has smoke-free areas along its beaches.