According to this story, Hackney Council is going to ban smoking in children’s play areas.
I would support a wider ban in the borough to include all parks and bus shelters.
July 19, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Health, News | Hackney, Smoking
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What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
And hopefully, it will get rid of the lonely times, from which I still suffer.
Why Anonymous? That’s how you feel at times.
The Anonymous Widower
Hey, Anonymous Widower, welcome to the world of coelia. My diagnosis came as such a relief (as well as an incentive to learn how to cook better).
As for your posting above, the impact of passive smoking on vulnerable members of society (such as children) is unacceptable and Hackney Council should (ordinarily) be congratulated heartily for making such a move as this. However, by converting nearly all of Hackney parks’ footpaths into cycle ways (thus encouraging fast-moving cyclists to race through) Hackney Council has made many of our parks “no-go areas” for parents with toddlers, elderly people and the many disabled people who would otherwise like to safely walk in and peacefully enjoy our parks.
One Councillor told me the “No Cycling in Parks” byelaws were dropped because the Council thought the rule was unenforceable (and sod the consequences for vulnerable people in our parks, eh?). If “unenforceability” is a reason for dropping byelaws, surely, aren’t these “No smoking” signs a waste of public money too?
That said, the “No Smoking” signs on Dalston Kingsland station seem to be effective most of the time and, on those occasions when they ignored, the people are usually smoking “wacky baccy” so can be forgiven for temporarily forgetting how to read!
Comment by JohnT | July 19, 2011 |
I was diagnosed about 10 years ago. I don’t find it too much of a problem.
I’ll agree about the bikes though. Let’s hope the bicycle superhighways take them off the pavements.
Comment by AnonW | July 19, 2011 |