Re: “Politicians back smoke-free parks,” April 25.
The proposed bylaw extension is yet another example of puritanism run mad.
Conceding to a minority’s position that bicycling is a life-threatening activity, the province invoked mandatory helmet legislation. Convinced in the absence of evidence that pedestrians would fall to their deaths from Ogden Point, the harbour authority further infantilized the city by spending some $500,000 on handrails.
And now, again without supporting evidence, lives are there to be saved by banning smoking in open-air parks and beaches.
If there’s a public-health concern to be addressed in this exercise, it should be a provincial illness of fear.
Brian Nimeroski
Sooke
