Wellington City Council is
banning smoking in Midland Park, a popular park in Lambton Quay where
many office workers sit to eat their lunch.
The council is proposing to declare the park smokefree on May 31, which is World Smokefree Day.
The move will be a non-regulatory change with signs used to state the policy.
"Wellingtonians
have overwhelmingly told us that they love our parks and playgrounds
being smokefree - and now is the right time to extend this to our inner
city green spaces," councillor Paul Eagle, chair of the community, sport
and recreation committee, says.
Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says more than 80 percent of people in Wellington do not smoke tobacco.
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