[Mishmash] Can it really be?????

[Robyne Kerr]

>Susan, I'm with you Government intrusion is out of control and I 
>feel its is just going to get worse.

Robyne



>  At 04:06 AM 1/6/08, you wrote:
>  >Dick;
>>
>>Why can't the non-smoker quit? Why should the smoker have to do so? 
>>Why can't the employer be the one to set the conditions in his own 
>>private workplace?
>
>
>The smoker is the one causing health issues, not the non-smoker.
>
>I find this thread very interesting - if not amazing.  It's been so 
>long since anyone has been allowed to smoke anywhere in public up 
>here that I'd forgotten that right ever existed.  Buildings 
>privately owned but accessible to the public are included so an 
>employer would have no say in whether or not smoking is permitted - 
>by law it isn't.
>
>No Smoking bans have gradually increased over the years - as of 
>January 1st here in Alberta, there's no smoking pretty much 
>anywhere, even outside.  It used to be restaurants could build 
>separate dining areas cordoned off with plexiglass (or whatever), or 
>designate one half the restaurant as smoking (which never made any 
>sense to me) but as of the new year, that is a thing of the past, 
>including smoking in the bars and casinos and on patios.  One 
>exception are the casinos on the native reserves - the band counsels 
>set their own laws - so, of course, smokers are going to going to go 
>the casinos on reserves.
>
>Wolfville, a town in Nova Scotia (Canada) last fall made it an 
>offence to smoke in your car if there is anyone under 18 present in 
>the car.  A few weeks later Bridgewater (also in N.S.) introduced a 
>bill designating the town smoke free so it would be an offence to 
>smoke anywhere outside.  The only place smokers in that town smokers 
>could go for a smoke would be on the bridge which is owned by the 
>Province and not the town. 
>(http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071208/nova_smoke_071208) 
>It will be interesting to see if that passes.
>
>Smoking is a disgusting, dibilitating habit  and I don't miss 
>dodging that bullet - my concern about all the non-smoking 
>legislation being passed is that once that "right" is gone, what 
>will be next under fire.   Actually, I can answer that - trans-fats 
>in foods.  Effective  January 1st here in Calgary restaurants had to 
>convert to trans-fat free cooking oils.  I heard New York has 
>already gone trans-fat free but don't know if that's been legislated 
>or is voluntary. 
>
>Government intrusion into our lives here in Canada is insidious and 
>out of control - I didn't go for my annual physical last fall and I 
>had a letter a few weeks ago from the Department of Health telling 
>me to go get one - and brochures on the dangers of breast cancer, 
>etc.  I am apalled and so angry - this a total invastion of privacy 
>but there's nothing I can do -  in Alberta, your health records are 
>not confidential.
>
>Enough ranting -
>
>Susan
>Calgary
>
>
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