No smoking signs will soon appear all over Chester, Pa. due to the recently amended ordinance to ban tobacco use in city parks.
The new law will force people who want to light up to move at least 50 feet from playgrounds, basketball or tennis courts, recreation centers, swimming pools, and fields used for baseball, football, or tennis.
“One of the things we wanted to target was minimizing the smoke areas around kids and exposing them to secondhand smoke,” Mayor John Linder said in a Delco Times report.
The fine for violating this new ordinance could be as high as $600, according to Philly.com.
Chester is the most recent city to join the “Young Lungs at Play” campaign. It's a no-cost, tobacco-free program supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The campaign is funded through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and it is administered by the Health Promotion protocol.
On Friday, city officials will arrive at Memorial Park Pool to put up the first of 75 no smoking signs.
