Most others cities in Ontario have banned these smoky nuisances. There are good reasons for doing so including protecting public health and preventing pollution.

Teachers are on strike today. We should be on strike about smoky air.

N2M 5C8 Smoky campfires in small backyards is not the example we should be setting for children.

Smoky air is unfit for people to breathe. Campfires need to go camping.

N2B 1W2 Public health and environmental concerns should be the priorities. We need some answers if they are not.

Waterloo banned this nonsense from city backyards on Jan. 1. What is Kitchener council's problem?

N2E 3J8

Absolutely ridiculous for residents to have to close their windows to keep out smoke from campfires in a city of 230,000 people. Remember the names of those who vote to allow these fires.

N2G 1E9 Public health and clean air should be the most important considerations in this debate.

People in Kitchener should not have to breathe in this smoky air. It's a health hazard to allow wood campfires.

Waterloo and Cambridge got it right - and just about every other city.

N2M 5G1 We should not need a petition at all in order for Kitchener council to do their jobs. Stop this smoke pollution and stop wrecking our health.

Keep this petition going by sending it to your friends. Wood firepits should not be allowed in Kitchener backyards.

We have put up with this smoky air for long enough. Wood fires in backyards should not be allowed in Kitchener either.

Climate change is a very real problem. Wood fires smoking up neighbourhoods is a horrible example to show young people who will be stuck with our mess.

A permit system like Cambridge could be tried first. Total ban if the system does not work.

It's unacceptable to expose neighbours to wood smoke. Backyard bonfires should be banned.

N2P 2A5 Please send this petition to your friends. Say no to smoky, disgusting air next summer.

Saying no to smoky, disgusting air in Kitchener subdivisions.

N2G 1M1

Wood smoke is a health hazard and backyard fires should be banned in Kitchener. That by-law has not been enforced properly for years.

Kitchener council should vote to ban backyard campfires at the next meeting.

Smoky campfires in Kitchener backyards were never a good idea. These fires have been banned in most other cities for good reasons. Kitchener should do the same.

Forest Hill Wood smoke is a health hazard. These fires belong in campgrounds not in backyards.

N2B 1W2

Waterloo The smoke crosses over into Waterloo.

These campfires never belonged in backyards. They should be banned. Most other cities have already done so.

N2C 2L4 Public health and safeguarding our air quality are the responsibility of Kitchener council.

Let's keep the petition going. Please send this to your friends. Let's get rid of smoky campfires.

People in Cambridge and Waterloo don't have to close their windows and breathe disgusting smoky air. Kitchener council needs to ban this smoky pollution.

N2M 5E6

Waterloo and Cambridge got it right. Clean up your act Kitchener.

Wood smoke is a health hazard and these backyard fires need to be banned. Disgusting that there is no ticketing system in place long ago to penalize offenders. Shame on you!

Please keep this petition going. No more smoky summer air.

N2C 2L4