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Success in Minneapolis! The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board (MPRB) showed strong leadership in protecting the health and well-being of residents and visitors to Minneapolis parks on Wednesday, March 8. The Board voted unanimously to make all Minneapolis parks tobacco-free, with an exemption for use of tobacco with traditional Native American spiritual or cultural ceremonies. You can read the policy here. The Board’s current Smoking/Tobacco Use Policy, which was approved in 2009, does not address the use of chewing tobacco or electronic cigarettes. The new tobacco policy expands to cover both of those uses and also honors traditional Native American spiritual or cultural ceremonies. A July 2016 survey of Minneapolis residents conducted by Morris Leatherman for the Minneapolis Healthier Parks Initiative found that 60 percent of respondents strongly supported Minneapolis parks benig 100 percent tobacco-free at all times. Join our coalition!
Tobacco on this page refers to the use of manufactured commercial tobacco products, and not the sacred medicinal and traditional use of tobacco by American Indians and other groups. |