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Seattle Parks places 25-foot ban on smoking in all city parks | West Seattle Herald / White Center News.
Just one day after Seattle Parks and Recreation Superintendent Tim Gallagher’s Feb. 17 announcement that he decided to ban all smoking in all Seattle parks, despite other recommendations from the Board of Park Commissioners, he announced he would “relax the rule.”
Therefore, as of April 1, smoking, chewing, or other tobacco use is banned within 25 feet of other park patrons and in play areas, beaches, or playgrounds. Gallagher tweaked the new municipal code of conduct while on vacation skiing in Oregon. He said in a press release that his decision change was due to “public input.”
Vaccine could cure smoking addiction | FOX 21 Online.
Quitting smoking is a battle millions face, now there may soon be new help to kick the habit for good.
Each year more than 40 percent of smokers try to stop smoking, yet less than five percent succeed in quitting for three months or more.
The University of Minnesota’s Masonic Cancer Center is now starting a clinical trial of what could be a revolutionary way to curb the desire to smoke, a vaccine called
Prof. Pushes for Ban on Cigarettes.
A group of health experts and civic activists Monday called for the government to ban the manufacturing and distribution of cigarettes.
They urged the government to conduct intensive rehabilitation programs for smokers and encourage tobacco farms to convert to other industries.
The Tobacco Free World and the Korea Association of Health Promotion, among others, are pushing to prohibit the selling and making of tobacco products within 10 years.
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