A group of young students, called Unfiltered, has urged Belleville to join three other Ontario cities and ban moking on the city’s playing fields. The statistics are startling…Hastings and Prince Edward, have the highest number of smokers in eastern Ontario…Health Unit spokesperson Cheryl Ferrar says one of the reasons is the cheaper contraband ciggs on Tyendinaga Territory. And Ferrar says there’s no safe level for second hand smoke. Council has called for a staff report on the proposal for banning smoking within 25-metres of athletic fields.
