I am SO onboard with this decision! GO ALEX!! I use the park daily and it sucks being stuck around smokers while walking or at festivals and concerts ... not to mention cigarette butts littering the place. It's high time to make these parks pleasant for everyone ... I hope the ban comes to fruition! :)

Absolutely for this!

Seriously, this is a great idea! The vast majority of people that go to these places (parks, playgrounds, tennis courts, etc.) are health conscious individuals who want to enjoy nature with their friends and families. And nothing sours that experience quite like a cloud of cigarette smoke. People should have the right to smoke - but I have an equal right to breath clean air. Banning smoking I second Aya in saying "GO ALEX!". This Midtown resident with a wife & kid applauds your efforts! Thanks!

100% support this, ban smoking in all public places. Those people that smoke or support freedom to smoke need to be reminded that other people arond them did not ask to breath their 2nd hand smoke and that the state will probably probably have to take care of them when they get a smoking-related health condition. So if you want to smoke then find a non-public area away from everyone else and also sign a waiver that you will not use any government provided healthcare to treat your smoking smoking-related health condition and noone will be offended. Better yet, don't smoke in the first place.

This ban will change little. It won't be enforced and smokers will continue to smoke... especially at festivals and concerts.

Councilman Alex Wan, needs to address the smoking of pot, illegal drug deals,(ask an Atlanta Police officer) Plus the no smoking, in the park, smoking of cigarettes is legal, pot & illegal drugs are not, No I do not smoke, The one's that do need to clean up there mess where ever they are at.

I'm not a smoker but this is stupid. We're talking about outside, right? If u don't like cigarette smoke, take two steps away, don't waste time legislating. Jeez, this is why i don't pay taxes.

100% support for NO smoking in all indoor and outdoor public spaces. Let the cancer lovers keep it to themselves in their own houses.

This proposal is about nothing more than calling political attention to its sponsor, Alex Wan. Both the proposal & Wan are idiotic & useless. And, Yes, I'm, in Wan's District, & No, I don't smoke. I'm just not for idiotic "Nanny State" solutions to unimportant "problems". Find a REAL job, Alex! You're a waste of time in this one!

Thank you, Don. Someone of sanity in his district. Weird. Don't worry, Don. The bastards will thrash u out and get rid of u

stupid people there won't be any parks left if we the people have anything to say about it if we can't smoke and enough people don't show up for concerts and other activities maybe they will get the hint they are losing money so let the smokers be heard

Right Judy....like all the bars, restaurants, and parks around the country that have closed down due to smoking bans.

The smoking ban DID kill a lot of bars and restaurants, aposter. But i doubt u even go out, so u wouldn't know

Cigarette smoke is a carcinogen, whether inhaled actively or passively. It should be banned in ALL public places, including all bars, restaurants, parks, etc. Anyone who believes otherwise is uninformed and selfish. Those are the facts.

Well John seeing as how I owned a bar when the ban went into effect I think I can talk about it with a little more authority than you. Nice try at the thinly veiled personal attack, I forgot how angry some smokers get when someone tries to curtail their often deadly addiction.

I'd like to see a city wide ban, like they did in Calabasas, California in 2006.
http://www.cityofcalabasas.com/secondhandsmoke.html

The smoking ban advocates claim that outdoor secondhand smoke is deadly, but they never present any associated death toll. Unlike indoor secondhand smoke that has a death toll, even if highly contested, outdoor smoking ban advocates seem to have nothing more to offer than a theoretical possibility of a mortality rate. If a case goes to court..."Your Honor, we have irrefutable evidence that the defendant is guilty of causing great peril by inflicting next to nothing, in clear violation of the law.

Smoking bans are part of the do-gooders "denormalization" strategy, a nice word for promoting intolerance. They seem to be quite adept at it.

The ordinance to ban smoking in Atlanta Parks has moved forward to be considered by the city council as early as Monday, July 16. The legislation does have three exceptions: Park Tavern, Lakewood’s Aaron's Amphitheatre and Chastain Park Amphitheatre. Read more here: http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/committee-sends-smoking-ban-1475935.html

No. No more encroachments on liberty. Smoking is a nasty habit but it's not appropriate to ban it outdoors. Now if they litter just one butt, fine them.

I agree with Marc. While indoor bans have improved my quality of life, regardless of what you think about the health impact, at some point we have to decide do we want to be free or do we want a limitless supply of laws to improve safety?