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This new law would expand the no-smoking zone to any sidewalk that abuts a park or playground.

A new bill would make it illegal to smoke near city parks, playgrounds, and beaches. FOX 5 NY's Tashanea Whitlow reports.

Ung proposed that first-time offenders receive a $50 fine and "$200 for each subsequent violation committed within one year of the first violation."already outlaws smoking any substances, including e-cigarettes and marijuana, near hospital entrances, in parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas. This new bill would essentially expand this no-smoking zone."I don't think a nuisance to me, as long as I'm not getting second-hand smoke from it.

"The public park, people should be able to smoke there. There should be a designated area. You can make an area," another pedestrian toldThe smell of marijuana has become a stink at the U.S. Open. One court in particular is notorious for smelling, as one player put it, "like Snoop Dogg's living room."

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