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Parkgoers Seem Split On New Smoking Ban

Residents of New York City can now breathe easier. On Monday, a law banning smoking cigarettes at parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas went into effect.

New York is now the largest city in the country to ban smoking cigarettes in public areas. The City has become an even more smoke-free place after already banning smoking cigarettes in restaurants and bars. If caught smoking cigarettes, a $50 fine will be enforced.

However, upon visiting parks in Queens, residents seemed split on the recent ban. While many parents are against smoking cigarettes in public, the question of whether the government has the right to ban smoking cigarettes in a public place comes into play.

Bayside’s Crocheron Park is often filled with families, kids playing baseball, basketball, tennis and on the playground. Although smoking cigarettes doesn’t often occur there, parents there had mixed feelings about the new ban.

A mother from Flushing, who wished to remain anonymous, was at the park supporting her son in his baseball game, and said she knows firsthand about smoking cigarettes since she was a smoker for 20 years. Although smoking cigarettes is bad, especially when children are around, it does not give the government the right to ban it in public places, she said.

“It’s wrong. You shouldn’t be told when and where you can smoke,” she said.

Another parent that disagreed with the ban was Orit Ezrani of Bayside. People have the right to smoke cigarettes cigarettes, but if it is around children, that is crossing the line, Ezrani said.

“I don’t think people have the right to tell people not to smoke cigarettes in the park,” she said.

Teacher Monica Rucynski, who grew up in Bayside and currently lives in Mineola, said she is thrilled that the government banned smoking cigarettes in parks because it is disgusting and a bad influence on children. Unlike other mothers at the park, she said she believes that no civil rights are being violated by banning smoking cigarettes in public.

Dilcia Santos, 32, of Bayside, who has three children ages 7, 6 and 4 said she couldn’t be happier that the new law was passed. With her children always in parks having fun, they need to be in a safe environment, she said. Her sister Erica echoed Santos’ sentiment and said she feels that children shouldn’t have to inhale second hand smoke.

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