The superintendent's decision to ban smoking in all parts of parks makes smoking equally prohibited everywhere—whether it be in a field with nobody around or right next to a baby. Smokers have zero added incentive to avoid non-smokers, like me, who would like smokers to stay clear with their rancid death sticks. And let's be realistic, the ban won't stop most smokers from lighting up in parks, as predicted by Park Commissioner Jourdan Keith. But the recommendations proposed by the parks board—the rules Superintendent Timothy Gallagher vetoed—would have made it clear how to obey the rules.

And no, we're not going to shut up about the idiotic parks smoking ban.