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NYC officials want to ban smoking in city's parks

Quick ReadNew York City officials want to ban smoking in city's hundreds of parks, 14 miles of beaches

NEW YORK (AP) — From Coney Island to Central Park, banning smoking at New York City's famous parks and beaches is the next goal of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-tobacco crusade.

Bloomberg's health commissioner, Thomas Farley, said Monday that parents shouldn't have to breathe smoke while standing on the sidelines of their children's soccer games, and children shouldn't even have to look at...

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