Health Officials Urge for a Smoking Ban in Parks, Alberta
Published on May 10, 2010 8:36 AM
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As it is know children and non-smokers usually go to parks where suppose to find fresh air. That’s why smoking in parks should be banned by all countries. This also was the main cause of health officials from Alberta which decided to ask for a smoking ban in their provincial parks. However the Alberta government said that this move is unenforceable.
For example, Vancouver beachgoers will be obliged to butt out after a legislation that prohibits smoking in more than 200 city parks and 18 kilometers of beaches comes into effect September 1.
Anti-smoking researchers in Alberta are attempting the government to establish a similar regulation, suggesting that park puffers offer health and environmental dangers.
Cigarette filters are not only the main source of garbage and pollution in public areas and playgrounds, but they also are the main cause of fire risk during the summer period.
Stuart Adams of Action on Smoking and Health said: "Vancouver is only one of about 30 municipalities through the country which enforced a smoking ban for to protect kids and non-smokers from second-hand smoke. This is not a new issue of course."
Mr. Adams would like to see the limitations accepted not only in provincial parks but in main cities like Calgary and Edmonton.
This issue has already incited discussions in Sylvan Lake, where residents and anti-smoking researchers want to put a limit and even end to unpleasant cigarette butts which can be seen along the resort town's shoreline.
"In our provincial park which has approximately million visitors every year, cigarettes are the number one category of garbage in parks," reported Sylvan Lake Mayor Susan Samson.
The problem is that such a rule is practically unrealizable to police, said Tourism, Parks and Recreation spokeslady Anne Douglas.
"The main charge is that we have almost 500 provincial parks comprising three million hectares of land. Obliging a ban on smoking would be very, very hard on a region wide foundation," she explained.
Negligent smoking is not the main cause of fires in the parks, she added.
But anti-smoking scientists said that they are also interested with the health implications of smoking in provincial parks, calling cigarettes smoke a public harm that transmits the wrong message to youngsters.
