Oublic Smoking In GTA...
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The restrictions at first were unfair, but *somewhat* based on reason. Now its just out of hand. I'm not sure about anyone else, but where I live on Vancouver Island you can't smoke in restaurants/bars/pubs. You have to be 9ft. from the doorway of any business. There is no smoking in public parks, which includes beaches & trails. There's not even any possibility of a smoking lounge as the WCB rules are such that no employee can be exposed to 2nd hand smoke.
Also, retailers have to cover up all tobacco products so that they aren't viewable by minors. Which means the B&M I work at has to have all the glass that faces the street fogged out so no on can see inside. The alternative is to fog the glass on all the humidors so you cant see the cigars from the street and cover up the cigarettes and pipe tobacco inside the store.
Smoking ban bylaw details.
Also, retailers have to cover up all tobacco products so that they aren't viewable by minors. Which means the B&M I work at has to have all the glass that faces the street fogged out so no on can see inside. The alternative is to fog the glass on all the humidors so you cant see the cigars from the street and cover up the cigarettes and pipe tobacco inside the store.
Smoking ban bylaw details.
I don't know if this went through in the GTA but here in Ottawa our City Council did the exact same thing and banned smoking in all City owned public spaces including beaches, trails, parks, est....they higher college kids in the summer to walk around the City as anit-smoking gestapo handing out fines for non compliance.
The writer of the article could see both sides of the issue as a non-smoker, which is rare. I couldn't read more that a few comments before thinking 'these people are f'ing idiots'.
The article itself was well written. Here, smoking is banned inside businesses (but there are smoking lounges). You can smoke on bar patios however, which is nice... though not so much when every single person needs to comment on me smoking a pipe.
The article itself was well written. Here, smoking is banned inside businesses (but there are smoking lounges). You can smoke on bar patios however, which is nice... though not so much when every single person needs to comment on me smoking a pipe.
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