Smoking and vaping may be banned at one state's most popular beaches and parks: Here's why

A measure introduced successful New Hampshire could prohibition smoking and vaping astatine 1 of the state's astir fashionable beaches and authorities parks.

Senate Bill 596 was introduced connected Nov. 25 to prohibition smoking passim Hampton Beach State Park — including its RV park.

The prohibition would statesman Jan. 1, 2027.

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While violators volition not look fees, authorized officials are directed to halt individuals from smoking.

Debra Altschiller, a authorities senator, told Fox News Digital she filed the authorities astatine the petition of a constituent.

New Hampshire Senate Bill 596 would prohibition smoking and vaping astatine Hampton Beach State Park. (iStock)

"She had been enjoying a formation time with her child, and a radical of radical adjacent to them were smoking — breathing successful their secondhand fume was horrible," said Altschiller. 

"She asked the radical to delight enactment retired their cigarettes and vapes, and they fundamentally told her to ‘pound sand.’"

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An estimated 1.6 cardinal non-smokers who are exposed to secondhand fume dice each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). 

The constituent assumed smoking was not allowed successful definite areas of the park.

"I would similar for determination to beryllium signage and wide rules. Most radical volition travel the parameters of beach rules due to the fact that they privation to bask the beach like everyone else." (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Yet instrumentality enforcement informed the pistillate that portion smoking connected the formation whitethorn beryllium rude — it was not prohibited.

There is nary harmless level of vulnerability to secondhand baccy smoke, with threats of superior cardiovascular and respiratory diseases specified arsenic coronary bosom illness and lung cancer, according to WHO. 

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"Culture alteration happens successful our communities; I was a precise young kid and inactive retrieve however the ‘Keep America Beautiful' run changed the civilization astir littering," said Altschiller.

"Change tin hap — and acquisition is the champion mode to support it going."

An estimated 1.6 cardinal non-smokers crossed the satellite who are exposed to secondhand fume dice each year. (iStock)

She said feedback from the assemblage has been positive, with galore radical not antecedently alert that smoking was allowed.

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"I would similar for determination to beryllium signage and wide rules," she said. 

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"Most radical volition travel the parameters of beach rules due to the fact that they privation to bask the beach like everyone else."