Smoke ’em if you got ’em near playgrounds — for now.

The D.C. Council held a hearing Monday to explore new bans on public smoking aimed to keep sin stick smoke away from kids.

Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward2) proposed a bill to ban smoking within 25 feet of a playground, while Councilmembers Vincent Orange (D-At Large), David Grosso (I-At Large), and Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) proposed to implement the same ban—plus require at least four signs about the ban be posted!—by amending the District of Columbia Smoking Restriction Act of 1979.

NBC4 has more:

The legislation … would require prominently posted signs warning that smoking near the playgrounds is illegal. It’s unclear what, if any, civil penalties would be imposed. That still has to be worked out in the legislation that likely wouldn’t become law until late in the year.

Angela Bradbery, a founder and leader of SmokeFreeDC, testified she wants the city to go further than a 25-foot ban around playgrounds. She wants the city to ban smoking anywhere in city parks.

“Children don’t stay just within the boundaries of playgrounds when they are at play,” she testified. “They visit other areas of the parks, too.”

Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), who heads the Committee on the Environment, Public Works and Transportation, supports expanding the ban to include parks, as well as bus stops, according to her spokeswoman.

As DCTots.com reported, the advocacy group Green Spaces for DC is already pushing for a smoking ban at parks with a Change.org petition.