Smoking Ban in Vancouver Parks?

On Monday night, the Vancouver city council will consider an update to the parks code. Included in that is a ban on smoking cigarettes in parks. The city has been taking public comment since October. You can read the comments here. Several other Washington cities have smoking bans and Portland bans smoking in two parks: Pioneer Courthouse Square and Director Park.
Tonight is only a first reading of the ordinance. There will be a second reading, followed by a public hearing in December.

Who exactly is being protected with outdoors smoking bans?12:33 pm Nov 28, 2011
Dear Vancouver council members, As a representative of a Canadian not for profit grassroots organization, we hereby offer our view on outdoor smoking bans. Since there don’t exist any serious studies that outdoor smoking harms by-standers, it is with total astonishment that we read that Vancouver is considering banning smoking in parks. Who would the Vancouver city council be protecting with outdoor smoking bans? Clearly not the children whose parents might no longer take them to the park as often if such a by-law was adopted. Those times that they will take them, they will undoubtedly shorten the visit or even be tempted to leave their children unattended to have a smoke outside the forbidden limits, thus exposing their children to true dangers of a different magnitude. As well, those same children will be subjected to even more smoke at home since their parents would inevitably be spending more time in their home, one of the few places left where they can still smoke