Visit a public park in Bellevue, and you can light up a cigarette, chew tobacco or puff on an e-cigarette all you want. Do so in Kent, and you’re technically breaking local law. In Seattle’s city parks, it’s verboten to smoke, but chewing tobacco and vaping are still OK. Across King County, there’s a patchwork of different policies like these that govern tobacco use in public parks, and regional health officials now want to address that inconsistency. The King County Board of Health — which oversees health policy countywide — formally began discussions this month about imposing what could be a total ban on tobacco use and vaping in all public parks. “Whatever we do, I want it to have a groun... [Read more]