Great Neck Village smoke ban is too limited
Brooklyn resident Frank Vignola, 54, smoking on the first day of the smoking ban on Jan. 5, on Middle Neck Rd in Great Neck. Credit: J. Conrad Williams Jr.
I would like to offer some information that has gone unnoticed amid the accolades to the Village of Great Neck over its smoking law ["Great Neck smokeout," Editorial, Jan. 7].
Yes, sidewalk smoking is prohibited in front of businesses along Middle Neck Road, the main artery of the business district. But the village has large areas along the same road where smoking will be permitted. If the purpose of the law is to protect the public from secondhand smoke, don't pedestrians in all areas deserve the same protection? The law is elitist and discriminatory.
Carole Lynn Marino
Great Neck
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