Since other communities have already successfully done it, why not cite them in asking your local council or park authority to take the same step. Feel free to copy this page and show it to those who doubt that it can be done. In their continuing battle against cigarettes, anti-tobacco factions in Westchester recently gained new ground. Disputing claims that outdoor smoke poses little threat, several communities and the county government this spring joined a small but rapidly expanding minority, cracking down on smokers at beaches, pools and parks. Today, the legions of outcast smokers walking the streets and clustered at entrances to buildings makes most nonsmokers cower.
People are tired of it.
On the one hand, proponents of the bans extol the rights of nonsmokers not to be exposed to the smells or perils of cigarette smoke or the detritus left behind by smokers. Despite the criticisms, communities across the United States have forged ahead to expand their no-smoking agendas. Here in the county, Eastchester passed a law earlier in the spring forbidding smoking in some sections of Lake Isle Park, a public recreation area. Greenburgh has limited smoking at Anthony J. Veteran Park, its primary recreation area, leaving only two designated smoking sections there. The county government, too, this spring banned smoking in the Kiddyland section of Playland Park in Rye and in all lines for rides at the amusement park.