Smoking bans extend to the great outdoors

Massachusetts - It was a recent trip to the park that finally did it. Jason Mayo watched as a father pushed his child on a swing, cigarette clenched between his teeth. On every upswing, the child got a face full of exhaled smoke. ?We can?t tell people how to parent,?? said Mayo, a member of the Ayer parks and recreation committee, which has banned smoking in the town?s recreation areas. ?But all the other kids around him were inhaling that cigarette too.?? As antismoking sentiment sweeps across the country, nonsmokers are taking back bars, restaurants, and workplaces, snuffing smoking out of its indoor havens. And now some of them are turning their sights on the great outdoors.---...More