Weston, FL Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

Section 100.02(X), part of Chapter 100's list of prohibited park activities, states plainly that no person shall smoke within a Public Park, and that the prohibition does not apply to unfiltered cigars. What counts as 'smoking' is set in the Chapter 1 general definitions at Section 1.01, which defines SMOKING (Public Parks) as inhaling, exhaling, burning, carrying, or possessing any lighted tobacco or marijuana product, including cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and any other lighted tobacco or marijuana product, including utilizing a Nicotine Vaporizer. That definition means the park ban reaches cigarettes, pipes, lighted marijuana product and e-cigarette or vape devices in one sweep, while the ordinance carves out only unfiltered cigars from the list, leaving filtered cigars, cigarettes, pipes and vaporizers all prohibited.

The rule applies across every Weston Public Park, from neighborhood playgrounds to the athletic fields and shelters used for permitted gatherings, and it operates independently of Florida's Clean Indoor Air Act, which governs enclosed workplaces rather than outdoor park land. Because the definition folds vaping devices into 'smoking,' a resident using a Nicotine Vaporizer at a park bench is treated the same as someone lighting a traditional cigarette, and the unfiltered-cigar exception is the only carve-out written into the section.