Thank you, Andrea Peyser, for an excellent column with an even better headline (“About Time We Put Last Nail in the Coughin!” Sept. 15).

I decided to eat my lunch outside on a beautiful, sunny workday last week, and I planned to enjoy it at one of the tables on the newly shut-down Broadway in Times Square.

Doesn’t that sound nice? Unfortunately, it wasn’t because of the smokers who ruined my 15 minutes of togetherness with nature.

I hope these areas will be included in the city’s new nonsmoking jurisdictions. Dena Zee Brooklyn

I loved Peyser’s column on smokers. I feel the same way.

I hope to see a day when my children don’t have to breathe secondhand smoke. Marni Konner Manhattan