[Accyexplorer]

Forgetting it'll be virtually unenforceable,I'm all for banning smoking in kiddies play area's just not entire parks (maybe when they ban vehicles from belching out noxious fumes, I'll do one of my famous Uturns and jump onboard).
Maybe just ban parents from smoking altogether as there's a good chance their going to be smoking around their kids?

I get that its a pretty disgusting habit to the non smokers. But banning folk smoking in an outdoor environment is being punitive for the sake of it. Either ban smoking altogether or leave smokers some place they can smoke and be social (shelter/smoking area).
Since we're banning things....can we also ban poverty too?
According to R. Wilkinson's epidemiological studies, the psycho-social effects of relative poverty cause more health problems than smoking.

The freedom to do things that don't harm others is a vital part of society. If folk smoke in smoking shelters/areas and they are harming no one but themselves,I believe that this is their right.