Tour Recognizes Doylestown as Part of Great American Smoke Out
Officials praised the borough for banning tobacco use in its public parks.
A community challenge tour recently stopped in Doylestown to recognize the borough's new tobacco-free public parks. Officials gathered at Veterans Memorial Park in Maplewood to check out the new signs that tell the public smoking is no longer allowed. The smoking ban and signs were approved earlier this year as part of the "Young Lungs At Play," a Pennsylvania Department of Health public health initiative to eliminate children’s exposure to secondhand smoke. The Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, Inc. works with municipalities, school districts, county government, youth recreation and sports organizations to coordinate the no-cost, tobacco-free parks and playgrounds program. Organizations that ban tobacco use receive weather resistant "…
Michael J. McFadden
4:37 am on Sunday, December 2, 2012
Well, regardless of whether Melanie chooses to defend herself, let me offer some points: 1) There is absolutely no scientific evidence of any harm being done to "Young Lungs At Play" by people smoking in parks. NONE. This effort is simply an example of "Dragging out the Children" to further a propaganda push aimed at what they call "Denormalizing" smokers -- reducing their numbers and pushing … more ›