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Board Approves Proposal To Ban Smoking In Parks

City health advocates are trying to ban smoking cigarettes in municipal parks and recreational areas. Racine's Board of Health on Tuesday unanimously approved a proposed ordinance to ban smoking cigarettes in parks, community centers, the splash pad and elsewhere during its meeting at City Hall, 730 Washington Ave. That would include, for example, the Oasis, the parking lot and the Kid's Cove at North Beach. The recommendation is expected to go before City Council soon for final approval. The city health department had recommended it to the board because of health concerns, according to Public Health Administrator Dottie-Kay Bowersox. "There are significant adverse health considerations," she said, listing death, lung cancer and asthma. "(The ordinance) will improve the overall health of the population." In addition to the hazards of secondhand smoke, Bowersox said even third-hand smoke cigarettes has adverse effects, when a person is subjected to a smoker's home, vehicle, even clothes. While the health hazards of smoking cigarettes have been prevalent previously, she said there's more of a nationwide movement by governmental bodies to restrict smoking cigarettes in municipal areas, pointing to Chicago and New York City. "So this is a natural progression," said Bowersox, who said she's helped implement a similar ordinance in Calhoun County, Mich. The parks board had approved a previous attempt by a resident to restrict smoking cigarettes in city parks but that fizzled out when the City Council voted to receive and file the request in February. If this measure goes through, it'd add onto the statewide ban and the city's current ordinance on smoking cigarettes, which prohibits it from city buildings and vehicles. The state smoking cigarettes ban took effect almost a year ago, prohibiting smoking cigarettes in "enclosed places" where people work and public places including taverns, restaurants, bowling alleys, correctional facilities and bus shelters. Board members discussed at length an additional 25-foot boundary around the parks or designating a smoking cigarettes zone within the parks but nixed the ideas, opting to keep it simple. "It's a basic concept - don't smoke cigarettes in parks," said board member Kaye-Eileen Willard, an internal medicine physician with Wheaton Franciscan-All Saints hospital, 3801 Spring St. For her the related health hazards with smoking cigarettes made the proposed ban a no-brainer. But in addition to that, Willard said the city should not encourage such behavior as smoking cigarettes in public places in order to be better role models for children and build a better culture.

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