Ok, now this is just getting retarded. I know this is not a major news source, but it's local to where I live and is in reference to a local proposal which goes above and beyond anything I can tolerate when it comes to anti-smoking.
I originally posted this article about no longer being able to smoke in your own car with a minor inside:
N.S. bylaw will ban smoking in cars with kids
This was approved, passed and will be in place this summer.
In addition to the above link, this occured today:
Ban smoking in cars with children: Ontario doctors
But I'm not making this thread about these two topics, but rather this, which I feel most will find interesting:
Bridgewater, N.S., considering ban on smoking on sidewalks, in cars The Amherst Daily News, Nova Scotia: News | Bridgewater, N.S., considering ban on smoking on sidewalks, in cars Quote:
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. — Bridgewater is considering a law that would make it illegal to smoke in any public place in town except for on the two bridges.
That’s because the bridges are owned by the province and the bylaw would apply only to town-owned property.
If the bylaw is approved, people won’t be allowed to smoke while walking on the sidewalk or driving in a car.
Kevin Marlin, the town councillor who proposed the bylaw, say it would be toughest anti-smoking law in Canada if it’s passed. But he may have a tough time getting it past first reading. The motion to have staff draft a bylaw for first reading was passed by a vote of 3-2 with a couple of councillors missing. Mayor Carroll Publicover is one of the two who voted against it.
‘‘I think it’s an unreasonable restriction on those who smoke,’’ he said.
For starters, he said, with 66 kilometres of streets and 34 kilometres of sidewalks in Bridgewater, it just won’t be enforceable. ‘‘I think it’s a prohibition that’s just too widespread,’’ he said.
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Yeah....
GOING WAY TOO FAR PERHAPS?!
Frig why don't they just criminalize smoking and be done with it, cripes... like what's the point to all this? You can't smoke inside, a resturant, a bar where you used to go and smoke/drink, you can't smoke in a bus shelter, you can't smoke on a patio, you can't smoke within 10 feet of an entraceway or ventilation of a building, you can not smoke inside a company owned car with additional occupants..... I think they passed the law where you can't even smoke on your company's property.
Now you can't smoke in your own car with minors in them, and now they're trying to basically say you can't smoke anywhere besides inside your own home.
Oh, but if you rent an apartment, depending on their rules, you may not even be able to smoke there.
So basically they are making smoking legal to buy and posses, but illegal to actually use.
WTF?
