Tobacco-Free Zones Established in Lansdale Parks
Tobacco use is now banned from pools, parks, athletic fields, ballfields, tennis and basketball courts — and everywhere else children play on borough-owned properties
Smokers and chewing tobacco addicts — it's now illegal to feed your addiction anywhere that children play in Lansdale Borough. If you do, you will be ejected from the area. With a unanimous vote last week, Lansdale Borough Council snuffed out tobacco use with a tobacco ban at pools, athletic fields, ballfields, tennis courts, basketball courts — and everywhere else that children play on borough-owned properties. Signs will soon be posted designating such places as tobacco-free zones under Penn State Cooperative Extension and Pennsylvania Department of Health's Southeastern Pennsylvania Tobacco Control Project's "Young Lungs at Play" campaign. Violaters who do not comply with the law will be ejected from the specific play area. Repeated …
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7:50 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Aha! Yes, finally something good that can come from the Wood Vine Connector! Once that's complete, there'll be no reason for cars to be on Main between Broad and Wood - no car zone here we come! :-) more ›