Should Menlo Park ban smoking in apartment and condominium units? In parks and gardens? Everywhere within city limits?

Those are some of the questions Menlo Park’s City Council will take up in a study session at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27. The meeting will be held in the council chambers, in the Civic Center complex between Laurel and Alma streets.

The city will also consider adopting a licensing requirement for tobacco retailers, after El Concilio of San Mateo County lobbied the council to do so.

Menlo Park resident Barbara Franklin has been stumping for a ban on smoking in multi-unit residences in the city for almost a year; the council is taking up the issue at her request.