----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Liberman" Subject: Re: PESO - Sparking One Up
> Well, this is really strange to me. Both in a sense that tobacco smoking > can be illegal and also because it is not entirely illegal but only half > so... > > Weird... It's a controlled substance in Canada. The various governments regulate who can buy it, and taxes the living hell out of it, and now are also in the game of regulating where it can be smoked. It makes for a weird situation. On the one hand, the tax windfall for the various levels of government is likely in excess of 300 billion dollars anually, on the other hand, the government funded health departments would prefer that we don't smoke. This pits the interests of Revenue Canada against those of Health Canada on paper, though I suspect the reality is that the government knows who is, in reality, paying for government funded health care. In the winter, all the tobacco lepers have to freeze themselves if they want to smoke, since they can no longer smoke indoors, except for private residences. One of the provinces has enacted a law which will prohibit smoking in a car if ther is a child (in Canada that is anyone under 18 years of age) in it, and there is some talk that they will extend it to anyplace where a child is, which would make for an interesting enforcement problem William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
