Just a note, but that was a municipality out in New Brunswick that has that silly law, not a Province.
-Adam On 12/12/07, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
