By Alabama Public Radio
Mobile, AL – The Mobile City Council will consider an ordinance Tuesday that would outlaw the sale of glass tubes. Police say the tubes are being sold at convenience stores and used as crack pipes. The city's public safety director says each tube contains an artifical flower and is sold for about a dollar. The ordinance would make it illegal to sell or distribute the open-ended, hollow glass tubes that are smaller than three-fourths of an inch in diameter and are shorter than a foot long. Officials say the penalty is a maximum $500 fine and up to one year in jail.