NYC parks and beaches SMOKING BAN starts today

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I don't smoke, but I'm curious. If you have an event at the Picnic House in Prospect Park and people go outside to smoke, is that breaking the new law? Anybody think Parks is going to enforce this like they do other quality of life issues like off-leash dog tickets? Reading the regs, I think one would have to go to the sidewalk outside the park to smoke. Hello wedding season...

I can see things getting ugly around this at the beaches this summer too.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/smoke_free_parks_and_beaches.html

A city health department study published in 2009 found that 57 percent of nonsmoking adult New Yorkers had an elevated level of a nicotine byproduct in their blood indicating recent exposure to cigarette smoke. The comparable nationwide figure was 45 percent.