CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER BAN ON SMOKING IN PARKS.Byline: - Dominic Berbeo Lighting up a cigarette on an outing at a public park could become a thing of the past in the City of San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. if an ordinance being considered by the City Council today is passed. Several other cities in the Los Angeles area are considering similar laws to keep smokers out of public places, including Long Beach and Beverly Hills. Laws banning smoking in parks already exist in San Francisco and some cities in other states such as Arizona and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The state of California, which has some of the most stringent tobacco- related laws in the country, recently enacted a law regulating smoking in playgrounds. Gov. Gray Davis on Aug. 6 signed into law Assembly Bill 188, which bars the smoking or disposing of any cigarette, cigar or other tobacco-related product from playgrounds statewide. The bill, authored by Assemblyman Juan Vargas, D-National City, cites statistics of approximately 3,000 lung cancer lung cancer, cancer that originates in the tissues of the lungs. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States in both men and women. Like other cancers, lung cancer occurs after repeated insults to the genetic material of the cell. deaths annually caused by second-hand smoke second-hand smoke Passive smoking, see there nationwide. Violation of the state law is an infraction Violation or infringement; breach of a statute, contract, or obligation. The term infraction is frequently used in reference to the violation of a particular statute for which the penalty is minor, such as a parking infraction. INFRACTION. , with a $100 fine. Parks in the city of San Fernando include Las Palmas Park, Recreation Park, Pioneer Park and Layne Park. |
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