Smoke-free green spaces. This measure should be voted without difficulty during the Strasbourg city council on Monday, June 25. Based on experimentation for a year at the Parc de la Citadelle, the ban on smoking in green spaces would attract 71% of non-smokers and nearly 60% of smokers according to 20 minutes.
The city continues its fight against smoking and initially, all of Strasbourg’s parks should become non-smoking, before the ban is extended to other green spaces and then to forests. Ashtrays will be installed at the entrances, and cigarettes may only be consumed in these places.
Protect children and the environment
“There is no question of preventing those who have not yet wanted or succeeded in being weaned from no longer being able to smoke in the public space”, explains to 20 Minutes Dr Alexandre Feltz, deputy mayor in health burden. The stated objective is to protect children and their parents who come to have fun in the parks but also the environment.
“From an environmental point of view, the filters of cigarettes thrown into nature take 12 years to decompose and (…) a single butt with its chemical components can pollute up to 500 liters of drinking water”, deplores in the columns de 20 Minutes Christel Kohler, deputy mayor in charge of city in nature and nourishing city.
The fines of 68 euros for offenders will apply from January 2019. Mediators, funded by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) and volunteers from the League against cancer will meet smokers in the spaces green with the mission of making them aware of the dangers of smoking but also directing them to healthcare professionals.
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