Oviedo leaders have decided to ban smoking in public parks and city-owned property.

“We don’t smoke in my family, so we’re very concerned for that. I don’t like my children smelling that smoke," began Learsi Cotto, a mother of two children, who moved to Oviedo earlier this year.

That's why city leaders hope smoke-free zones will soon be a breath of fresh air in Oviedo, especially for children.

“I think it’s a wonderful idea … because if there’s no smoking people can probably enjoy the park more and I think that everyone would like that," said almost 10-year-old Oviedo resident Reagan Reynolds.

“I’ve seen smoke over there a little bit, like people in their cars and it kind of goes over there and some little kids around, I think they’re little so I just think it hurts their body a little bit," said Reagan's friend Sophia Hudanich, who is also 9 years old.

Inside a packed city hall, Oviedo City Council passed the ordinance Monday night, which bans the use or smoking of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes at all city parks and city facilities.

However, e-cigarette users from across Central Florida, many of whom recently switched from cigarettes, believe they should not be subject to the new law.

“With the water vapor, there’s no second-hand smoke, it’s not like a cigarette like I said earlier there’s no combustion. If you were to walk through a cloud of vapor, it would be like just walking through one of the misters that you see at Disney where you go to cool off," shared Casselberry resident and Oviedo native Jeremy Weiner. "In a nutshell, vaping saved my life and the fact that they want to ban it completely is just completely asinine."

However, Oviedo city leaders said the research they found on whether e-cigarette vapors are harmful was inconclusive, so they chose to ban them, along with cigarettes on city-owned property.

"We really aren’t trying to pick on anybody that’s lawfully using a product. What we’re just trying to do is make a better quality of life in the Parks & Rec system we have throughout the city for everybody," shared Oviedo Mayor Dominic Persampiere.

Oviedo Police Chief Jeffrey Chudnow told News 13, although the ban begins immediately, the departments wants to install signs before enforcing the smoke-free zones.

The plan is to begin with warnings but officers do have the authority to write a $50 ticket to first time offenders.