Reston health advocates — or fun haters, depending on who’s offering the description — have started a movement to ban smoking in public areas operated by the town’s neighborhood association. By Friday evening, an online petition to “expand the current tobacco smoking prohibitions to all outdoor Reston Association Common Areas” had attracted about 60 signatures. The Reston Association represents about 60,000 residents.

If the petitioners’ requests are agreed to by the association and found to comply with Virginia law, lighting up could be banned along more than 55 miles of trails and pathways, on more than 40 tennis courts, and dozens of community gardens, basketball courts and other outdoor facilities.