When will the city ban cigar smokers from the Public Garden?
By adamg - Wed, 05/16/2007 - 9:51am.
Alyssa reports that a co-worker on a lunchtime walk singlehandedly kept the Public Garden from going up in flames yesterday:
... Joe said he was walking when he noticed a lot of smoke. Someone had left a large, burning cigar in the mulch by a shrub. Joe took matters into his own hands - or feet - and spent a few minutes putting out the fire. ...
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lets just ban everything
lets just ban everything that we dont like. lets ban fattening foods, cigarettes, hard liquor, trampolines, mildly offensive humor, dirty looks, dirty books, and anything else certain people deem offensive or slightly dangerous. regulate everything. we need a nanny society.
Most of the things you've
Most of the things you've listed harm only the users of them. Cigarettes and alcohol can and do harm others. So can starting brush fires.
I don't think banning cigars is the answer, but a little common sense would go a long way...maybe posting "FIRE HAZARD" signs at the Public Garden entrances would help.
Maybe not.
(Are apostrophes on your list of banninated items?)
I'm not generally for banning smoking in parks, but ...
Remember a few weeks back when someone tossed a cigarette from (or under) the Longfellow Bridge and started a huge fire that shut down the bridge, the Red Line, and Storrow Drive?
At the Canton commuter line,
At the Canton commuter line, someone threw a cigarette into some brush next to the parking lot ... setting 7 cars on fire. My co-workers car was totaled by a careless smoker.
You have to love smokers -
You have to love smokers - the world is their ashtray, the rest of us are just living in it.
Smoker
I smoke. I also take care to put out my cigarettes, not smoke in the presence of others unless in a designated smoking area, and I have even gone so far as to pick up other smoker's detritus from the ground in those smoking areas.
Please, don't tar & nicotine me with the same brush.
Suldog
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