Posted by danville mom, a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Aug 10, 2011 at 8:39 am

Whereas I do not smoke and find the smell of cigarette smoke pretty gross, I personally don't find an issue with people smoking in our town's parks. I have for severl years, and still spend a fair amount of time at our various parks and playgrounds and rarely, if ever, have encountered a problem with smoking. I think our town's money can be used in a other more productive ways.

Where I do find cigarette smoking offensive is when I make my frequent trip to Trader Joes and between the TJ employees along with the employees/friends/customers of "Z Pizza", there's almost always someone sitting either at Z Pizza or sitting on the sidewalk smoking.

At least at a park, the air is open, but next to a building, the smoke dissapates at a much slower rate.

Thank you.

Posted by Joe, a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Aug 10, 2011 at 10:21 am

I can't imagine why so many young people are smoking. I work for a large corporation, and we have a lot of young people working for us. I am amazed at how many of these "kids" have to run to smoke every chance they get.

Posted by Rita, a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Aug 10, 2011 at 10:27 am

My big dog has been burned twice in the face at the dog park when he approached someone's hand for a pet and encountered a lit cigarette in it. It's too bad people can't use common sense and be a little considerate of others. I love smoking, but I keep it in the backyard at home.

Posted by Nick, a resident of the Blackhawk neighborhood, on Aug 10, 2011 at 1:57 pm

Thank you Danville Park services...

Posted by Mona, a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Aug 11, 2011 at 9:58 am

Great! Great! Great!...A very wise decision. Thank you.