 TheCatWhisperer says: YAY!!!! No person shall smoke in any enclosed place that is or includes a daycare or pre-school, school, community college or university, library, art gallery or museum, health-care facility, cinema or theatre, video arcade or pool hall, recreational facility including, but not limited to, a bowling alley, fitness centre, gymnasium, pool or rink, multi-service centre, community centre or hall, arena, fire hall or church hall, meeting or conference room or hall, ballroom or conference centre, retail shop, boutique, market or store or shopping mall, laundromat, ferry, ferry terminal, bus, bus station or shelter, taxi, taxi shelter, limousine or vehicle carrying passengers for hire, vehicle used in the... Less than 24 hours to go!!! There are a number of pubs downtown that we frequent, that have smoking rooms, but you can smell the cancer monkeys if you are too close to the room... (The Old Triangle) also, that room tends to be the last one to fill up at lunch time... (who in their right mind wants to eat around that stench?).. now that room will be open & smoke free!!! Hooray for further trashing the rights of business owners. Hooray for caring about people's health! There has been virtually no drop in business since the initial rules were put in place (in fact, in most bars/pubs the dip in attendance lasted less than a week). The initial rules were you had to have a separately ventilated room where no minors could enter for smokers that could not take up more than 40% of the establishment. Most places didn't bother.. they came out fine. It's not a business owner's right to kill it's customers. I'd rather my government care about people's health and the drain smokers put on the health care system (since as Canadians we pay through the teeth for public health care) then the "rights" of business owners.. who as I stated aren't really affected. PS: those initial rules went in place in 2002. No businesses closed down. In fact, in many cases such as bingo halls, etc, business increased. And they were one of the worst places for smoking, and one of the loudest critics. Hooray for Nova Scotia! It should happen everywhere. A business should have the right to cater to the customers which they wish. What is next? Maybe fat (they are already going after trans fats in some places)? How about sugar? It is just another step in the nanny state where you can only do what the state deems to be good for you. Hrm.. all I can say n2 is "too F#$$@ Bad..." Don't move to NS or California  We are better off without you anyway Nice response. I have no desire to go to those cesspools of liberalism anyway. Next thing you know you guys will be walking around with safety helmets and orange vests everywhere you go (because the government doesn't want you to hurt yourself) talking about conservatives taking away your rights by wiretapping terrorists. LOL.. it's hard to believe that you are being serious.. I can't believe anyone is that ignorant Hrm.. again, we are better off without you... Well, I say it as a joke, but then again, I might have joked the same way about smoking being banned from private businesses such as bars and even from privately owned homes or how they might even ban the use of foods containing fat in some cities. Seriously, if the politicians think smoking is so hazardous that people shouldn't even be allowed to smoke in their own homes or allow smoking in their own privately owned businesses, then why don't they grow some balls and simply ban smoking? Why beat around the bush with stupid laws regulating what you do or allow on your own property and just ban them? These laws are every bit as stupid as the old sodemy laws some states still have. if the politicians think smoking is so hazardous that people shouldn't even be allowed to smoke in their own homes or allow smoking in their own privately owned businesses, then why don't they grow some balls and simply ban smoking? Why beat around the bush with stupid laws regulating what you do or allow on your own property and just ban them?I wonder this too. How can the government make it illegal to perform a legal activity in a home that you own? I don't understand. If it's illegal to smoke anywhere, why not just ban smoking? |
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