A final vote on an ordinance to ban smoking in all municipal buildings, parks, and recreation areas in the city of Passaic has been delayed after the City Council tweaked some of the language. There have been some changes to the language of the ordinance since it was introduced on June 12, Passaic spokesman Keith Furlong said. As a result, the ordinance is being pulled from Tuesday nigh’s agenda and a new version will be introduced on July 3, Furlong said. Furlong said because of the proposed changes, the city clerk didn’t have time to advertise the revised version, so the whole process will start over on July 3.
No word was available Monday on what changes have been made to the bill. “The lawyers just wanted to make sure that everything was done right in terms of the procedure,” Furlong said. The smoking ban appears to have widespread support on the City Council and is expected to be adopted. The original version created a 35-foot radius around all municipal buildings where smoking would be prohibited. It also bans smoking at all municipal parks, playgrounds and recreation areas. Passaic’s proposed ordinance grew out of a statewide campaign by Global Advisors for a Smokefree Policy (GASP), a Summit-based non-profit that has pushed through smoking bans on public property in 122 municipalities in New Jersey.
Karen Blumenfeld, the executive director of GASP, said the campaign’s goal is to get all 566 municipalities in the state to sign onto the smoking ban. She said the goal of the campaign isn’t to create another way for local police to write summonses to violators, but to send the message that smoking is dangerous to everyone and should not be accommodated in public spaces. “The U.S. Surgeon General has repeatedly said that there is no safe level of second-hand smoke,” she said. “This is really about sending the right message to children in the community that smoke-free environments are healthful environments.”
Blumenfeld said smokers generally obey the bans and light up only where it is legal. She compared the smoking bans to the use of alcohol, which is generally prohibited in public parks and playgrounds. The original version of Passaic’s ordinance bans smoke from cigarettes, pipes, cigars, or “electronic smoking devices.” Violators would be subject to fines ranging from $250 for the first offense, $500 for a second offense, and $1,000 for each subsequent offense.
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