Friday, March 20, 2015

Seattle's Mayor Wants No Smoking in Parks

Seattle's Mayor Ed Murray has asked its administration to make rules that can prohibit smoking in public areas specially parks and play-land areas. He has been against smoking since beginning and banned it in 25 feet circle of parks. Now he want to ban smoker out of these joy-lands.

Seattle' Board of Park Commissioners is making draft that will be forwarded for approval by administration. Reports has been filed by citizens that kids and families face difficulties to enjoy in parks and joy-lands due to smokers and no limitation on it.


City Municipal Code is official code of conduct for police and citizens to follow. Board of Park Commissioners is an advisory body and its proposals will not be part of official code. It will be simpler to follow and easy to adopt.

Smoking is not good for health. All governments are struggling to control it but failed to do so. On the other side, tobacco companies have lot of money to harass even governments. Bill Gates have started a new fund for government organization to fight legal laws against tobacco companies. A $4 million fund will help small countries to get a moral and financial support from Bill.

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