(REUTERS) — Smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products in Seattle’s parks became illegal on Monday, as the U.S. Pacific Northwest’s largest city joined other American metropolises in restricting puffing in public.
Seattle’s Parks and Recreation officials voted in May to ban smoking in all of its 465 parks. It had previously required smokers to maintain 25-feet minimum distances from other visitors in any publicly accessible park land, the city said.
On Monday, the city, on its website, encouraged park goers to “smell flowers, not smoke.”
The ban follows similar restrictions in more than 1,000 other U.S. cities and communities across the nation, including New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, the city said.
Cities have pursued the ban as the dangers of cigarette smoking became more widely accepted, and because of cigarette butt litter.
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3 comments:
Soon we all will march to the tune of the drum . No rights , no constitution , no life worth living. The government will tell you when to go potty and when to wipe your butt. My toilet paper comes in the form 30 round 223 magazines , it's a little rough but very effective.
223? Weak. With that caliber, you'd need about half of your magazine to take down a 110lb Vietnamese women. Same reason why many states won't let you hunt Deer with it. Too light.
How ironic. Don't they allow pot smoking in the park?
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