Nearly all indoor public places in Nebraska are smoke-free. But some high school students are asking local authorities to take those non-smoking restrictions one step further.

Grand Island Senior High senior Reyna Raymundo says she doesn't think it's fair to have community members affected by other peoples' decision to smoke cigarettes in outdoor public areas.

Raymundo and other high school board members of No Limits, Nebraska's youth-led tobacco prevention movement are hoping to extinguish what they see as a big problem for local teens.

"Everyone deserves a free environment, to have both inside and outside, non-smoking, because there is no safe way to have second hand smoke," Raymundo says.

Central City has already implemented the students' idea to create smoke-free parks.

City Administrator Chris Anderson says the student group came to a city council meeting with the idea.

"They had some suggestions that they thought would be good in a policy and we took those suggestions, kind of molded them to our needs and together I think we put together a nice policy that everybody agrees will be effective in our parks," Anderson says.

Students say their concern is a result of the high number of classmates they see using tobacco products.

Raymundo says it's one of the biggest issues she sees at Grand Island Senior High.

But they're hopeful this is the beginning of a wide-spread movement.

"What we really talk about with the youth is changing social norms and if there are environments where there is no smoking going on, it's not going to be as much of a norm," No Limits Assistant Project Coordinator Jessi Wolfe says.

Even though they're concerned about reducing tobacco use among teens, she says the focus of this project is on eliminating the second-hand smoke that can be even more harmful to families and children.

"Youth deserve to have an environment that is smoke free," Wolfe says.

"We don't want to have kids exposed to cigarette smoke or smokeless tobacco while they're in our park system," Anderson says.

Anderson says so far, the Central City community has been compliant with the new policy.

No Limits is holding a summit in Central City this weekend for 100 high school students from across the state. Organizers say they hope to teach students how they can bring policies like the one in Central City back to their own communities.