New York, 29 may (EFE).- the prohibition of smoking in public parks, swimming pools, beaches and historic sites of New York, announced last April, is to be suspended before the pressure exerted by a group of activists who defends the rights of smokers.

Group NYC CLASH reported today that it has managed to suspend the ban, in force since April, alleging that the New York Office of Parks Conservation had applied it nine days before introducing the measure to the legislature of the State.

“the crusade against smokers has been strengthened so much so that apparently the rule of law already need not be applied when it comes to protecting the rights of citizens who have chosen to quit,” he said today in a statement the founder of CLASH, Audrey Silk.

addition, accused the parks Office of the Big Apple of taking part in the experiment launched by anti-fumadores activists””.

Silk denounced that this agency will not remove the posters which have already been installed at various points in the city in which can read “no smoking”, and stressed that this message now is “false and intentionally deceptive,” in order to “intimidate potential smokers”.

“signs give to understand that smoking is prohibited by law, and nothing clarifies that this ban is not official, so it is confusing to people,” added Silk.

addition, the activist stressed that “when government bureaucracies can break the law without punishment, is the law itself that suffers, and it will end up affecting to an activity that you enjoy or any group to which you belong”.

before die Ankündigung der Parks Office ähnliche Maßnahmen kurzfristig, CLASH, die eintreten für die Rechte der Raucher seit 2000, betrachtet die Möglichkeit, rechtliche Schritte zu Unternehmen, “Wenn Sie versuchen, eine solche Politik zu implementieren, ohne den Vorteil des Gesetzes”.

die Parks Office des Big Apple Teilnahme an Experimenten eingesetzten Anti-Fumadores-Aktivisten vorgeworfen, eine Gruppe von Aktivisten, die die Rechte der Raucher verteidigt. WireImage /