Smoking still allowed outdoors
Jump to full article: Valley Courier Online (CO), 2009-07-06
Author: RUTH HEIDE
Intro: A tied vote during the Alamosa city council's most recent meeting defeated a resolution to prohibit tobacco use in Alamosa city parks and other outdoor recreational areas owned by the city.
Youth from the Get R!EAL Coalition had asked the council to expand the city's clean air ordinance.
The proposed resolution before the council last Wednesday would have prohibited all tobacco use including cigarettes and chewing tobacco on city-owned parks, playgrounds and other open recreational areas such as ball fields and trails.
The resolution stated the measure was necessary to protect citizen health particularly children using the city parks and ball fields, and to provide a positive role model for youth.
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