Smoking ban extend to the great outdoors »
Posted By BronxBomber 4 weeks ago in StyleMassachusetts - It was a recent trip to the park that finally did it. Jason Mayo watched as a father pushed his child on a swing, cigarette clenched between his teeth. On every upswing, the child got a face full of exhaled smoke. “We can’t tell people how to parent,’’ said Mayo, a member of the Ayer parks and recreation committee, which has banned smoking in the town’s recreation areas. “But all the other kids around him were inhaling that cigarette too.’’ As antismoking sentiment sweeps across the country, nonsmokers are taking back bars, restaurants, and workplaces, snuffing smoking out of its indoor havens. And now some of them are turning their sights on the great outdoors.
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StevieGee4 weeks ago
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It's been quite a few years since smoking indoors was banned here in California now. It never really bothered me before but when I go to Nevada now I go somewhere and smell the air and realize how nice it is to live in good old smoke free California. Health issues aside, smoking just plain stinks.
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papahet4 weeks ago
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It's not easy, if you try to have an unbiased opinion on this topic. But:
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1. Since smokers are paying all the taxes just as the non-smoking citizen - with no discrimination on this - why aren't they allowed to enjoy the same freedom? Isn't this a sort of discrimination?
2. Is the community aware how an the forbidden fruit becomes the most tempting one? Take a closer look into teenagers parties - not only that 99% of them smoke, but maybe more than half jumped to another "smoke"...
Let me add I'm not a smoker (quit after more than 20 years and 20 cig per day :D) - so I'm only trying to be unbiased
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