Everyone deserves a clean and healthy place to play!

I am concerned about the use of TOBACCO INDUSTRY PRODUCTS at our parks and beaches.

These are the FACTS:

• Several trillion cigarette butts are thrown on the ground each year.
• If eaten, it takes only a few cigarette butts to seriously harm a small child.
• Cigarette butts have been found in the stomachs of wildlife.
• Cigarette butts are the #1 cause of man-made forest fires.
• Spit tobacco cans and cigarette filters (a form of plastic) are nearly impossible to break down.
• Empty spit tobacco cans and cigarette butts on the ground send a message to young children that "everyone is doing it".

For these reasons, I am asking City Council to amend our current by-law to ban the use of tobacco industry products at local parks and beaches.

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