Tweet Smoking is now banned on all properties and in all facilities under the jurisdiction of the Vancouver Park Board. A bylaw came into effect Wednesday prohibiting smoking at public parks, playgrounds, parking lots, beaches, and the three golf courses owned by the city. The bylaw specifically prohibits smoking cigarettes, pipes, cigars and marijuana smoking [...]

Tweet Smoking will be banned at all Vancouver parks and beaches beginning Saturday, after the park board raised the fire hazard rating to extreme. Smoking will be forbidden in all parks and on city trails, as will charcoal and wood-burning barbecues. Only propane barbecues more than 76 centimetres off the ground will be allowed in [...]

Tweet Smokers have one summer left to puff away at Vancouver’s scenic parks and beaches after the city’s parks board voted unanimously to ban lighting up at either. The board agreed Monday night to impose the ban in the roughly 200 parks and on the 18 kilometres of beaches in Vancouver, effective September 1 – [...]

Tweet Vancouver‘s park board will vote on a plan Monday that would prohibit smoking in all public parks and beaches. Park board commissioner Raj Hundal says the move makes sense on medical and environmental grounds. Hundal says second-hand smoke is one of the leading causes of death in B.C. and cigarette butts can be an [...]