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Jump to full article: Seven Days (Burlington, VT), 2009-11-18
Author: Andy Bromage
Intro: Sisco is reacting to news that the Burlington City Council is considering banning smoking in public parks, beaches and on the Church Street Marketplace. City Councilor Karen Paul (I-Ward 6) is backing the ordinance and hopes it will pass by spring.
If approved, Burlington would join a growing list of U.S. cities that have expanded smoking prohibitions beyond the confines of bars and restaurants -- where it was banned to protect workers indoors from harmful secondhand smoke -- and into outdoor gathering places.
Burlington already has a reputation as one of America's healthiest cities, and Paul sees a partial outdoor smoking ban as a way to build on that image.
"What you do in your own home is for you to decide," says Paul, an ex-smoker who went cold turkey when she became pregnant 16 years ago.
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