KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two Kansas City Parks & Recreation commissioners are pushing to ban smoking in city parks.

Commissioners Aggie Stackhaus and Meg Conger said children are exposed to the effects of secondhand smoke at playgrounds and that smokers leave cigarette butts behind.

"Penguin Park in particular is just littered with cigarette butts. We have problems with people putting them out on synthetic play surfaces. We have problems with them being dropped, still lighted, in the mulch," Conger said. "And we have problems with kids who pick them up and ... put them in their mouth."

The commissioners asked the Parks Board to consider posting signs about the risks to children at city parks.

"Let's hope people buy into it and say, 'You know, I really should be blowing smoke into my little grandson's face,'" Stackhaus said.

Mother of four, Charity Schussler, a smoker, said she smokes in her car or away from her children, and said she said thinks the ban is a good idea.

"To each their own, but I like to keep my kids away from it as much as possible, and my youngest has asthma," Schussler said

The commissioners said they are not after penalties or fines, but they want smokers to be aware that there are small children around in city parks.