Smoking Ban Issue

[John Hernlund]

I was curious to understand why PDGA rules ban smoking in majors, but that the smoking ban does not extend to tournaments that are held on courses where smoking is either forbidden by the property owners, or is outlawed by local laws (particularly on public land/parks)?

In places where parks depts are afraid that a disc golfer will burn down the forest, it would be nice if the TD could tell them that the PDGA rules governing the event forbid smoking whenever it is against the wishes of the property manager/owner/parks dept, and that a player not following the rule is severely penalized.