NYC to try banning smoker at beaches and in parks

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New York City-limits is advancing a boxy new action that would shoo smokers out of accessible parks, beaches and even the affection of Times Square — one of the a lot of aggressive alfresco anti-tobacco efforts in the nation.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administering and city-limits assembly appear Wednesday that they will accompany a ample addendum of the city's smoker ban to 1,700 parks and 14 afar of accessible beaches, additional boardwalks, marinas and banal plazas.
That would beggarly no smoker in Central Park, no lighting up on the Coney Island boardwalk and putting the cigarettes abroad if you're lounging on the traffic-free banal plazas in Times Square and Herald Square.
"When New Yorkers and visitors to our city-limits go to the parks and beaches for beginning air, there will in fact be beginning air for them to breathe," Bloomberg said at a City-limits Hall account conference.
States and cities from Maine to California accept banned smoker in accessible parks and beaches, but New York is advancing an abnormally extensive burghal ban. While hundreds of municipalities accept alfresco no-smoking laws, the better city-limits in the nation is gluttonous to force bags of acreage of esplanade as able-bodied as some active city-limits blocks to go smoke-free.
By including banal plazas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Bloomberg administering is venturing into area a lot of anti-tobacco bans leave alone: smoker on the street.
The boundaries of the plazas, in a lot of cases, are sidewalks, bike lanes and artery corners. If the law passes, it would be simple for a smoker to alluvion from the sidewalk, area smoker is still allowed, into a plaza, area it is not, after realizing.
Lawmakers said the ambition is to accumulate humans from smoker central the plazas, not to ambush smokers into accepting ticketed.
"The point of this bill isn't 'Gotcha,'" said City-limits Board Speaker Christine Quinn. "Our ambition is not to get a admirer or a adult who's walking beyond the street."
The city-limits banned smoker in confined and restaurants in 2003. Smokers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], continued acclimatized to getting told they are not welcome,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], shrugged off the account of a accessible alfresco ban Wednesday.
Gene Buelow, who chock-full for a smoke in a Times Square banal plaza, said it "wouldn't bother me a bit."
"I don't even like smoker about humans who don't smoke," he said. "And the humans who gave it up don't wish smokers about them."
"It's a acceptable idea," said Jason Perez, a restaurant artisan smoker at an alfresco table in the plaza. "I'm aggravating to abdicate myself."
A smokers' rights group,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], NYC Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, afresh acquaint a video on its website agitation the idea. The group's founder, Audrey Silk, argues that smoke dissipates bound outdoors, area "there's allowance for everybody and cipher will be affected."
Officials said they are basing the proposed law on claims that even abrupt acknowledgment to secondhand smoke can affectation bloom risks.
They cited a May 2007 Stanford University abstraction that begin a being sitting aural three anxiety of a smoker outdoors can be apparent to levels of secondhand smoke agnate to calm levels.
The proposed law, which have to go through the City-limits Council, would accord the parks administration the ability to bang violators with quality-of-life summonses, which are tickets for accessory offenses like aimless or accessible urination. Fines can go as top as $250; the city-limits said smoker summonses acceptable would be about $50.
Council associates plan to acquaint the anti-smoking bill Thursday. It has to go through board hearings afore the abounding 51-member board can vote.

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