More battles in the smoking wars. The latest front has opened up in HRM where:
Linda Mosher wants to put outdoor smokers in their place.
The Halifax regional councillor says smokers lighting up at city-owned beaches, sports fields, playgrounds and parks should be confined to smoking zones like parking lots.
The councillor for Purcells Cove-Armdale plans to introduce the concept at this week’s regional council meeting.
The poor, well meaning woman. Doesn’t it just make you cry?
Ms. Mosher said her research shows various jurisdictions, including several in the United States, have such bylaws.
And we all know the USA is a fine example to us in everything, right, or- hmm- is it just in those things we choose? And did your mother and father ever say to you “And if Johnny jumps off a bridge does that mean you have to too?” At least the article didn’t mention Wolfville, which is setting itself up as a paragon of every virtue.
Ms. Mosher said. “There should be a ban — a certain amount of metres away (from people) — where you cannot smoke in the vicinity.”
We can see another tool added to the policeman’s already heavily laden belt – a tape measure!
The anti-smoking trend has some people fired up.
Dartmouth resident Debbie Cormier feels smokers have rights — and they’re being trampled on.
We are beginning to find out that, no, we don’t have rights. Just ask Ezra Levant and Mark Styn.
“Human rights (refer) to the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law. That’s right, equality before the law!” she said last month in a letter to The Chronicle Herald.
“In my estimation, anti-smokers on the bandwagon are a biased, selfish, heartless, nosy, know-it-all group of people,” Ms. Cormier said in her letter. “Why do people who don’t smoke think they are better than smokers?”
Like Ms. Mosher?
Ms. Mosher, who used to smoke when she was younger, said she’s concerned children’s health is being compromised by breathing in wafts of cigarette smoke while outside. And she wonders what message adults are sending youngsters when they smoke in front of them at soccer matches or baseball games.
Well, you know, we don’t know Ms. Mosher. She is probably a sweet, sweet, person who just wants to control the rest of us – for our own good, of course. Most of these well meaning people, sweet, peace loving people, all seem to want to bring the world under control, to remake it into a nice tidy eden, and to remake us into ideal residents in that fantasy world they have created in their mind, their view of the world as it should be.
And they call Harper a control freak.
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