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In article <4suvgc$m16@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>,
ab608@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Neil  Fowler) wrote:

> do you really expect 
> anyone to actually engforce the smoking ban. 

While there may well be a few places like speakeasies or bars that will
look the other way and allow smokers to smoke and drink etc.. in _most_
cases, this law will be self-enforcing precisely because it's something
the majority of us wanted. 

You can witness the same thing right now in food courts or other
smoke-free places like the Dufferin Mall. If anyone is rude enough to
smoke in these smoke-free places, someone like myself will surely remind
you that smoking is not permitted.

As polls indicated (released a few weeks before the law was passed), this
law is not something handed down by "facist" NDP (hard to type this
without laughing) councillors at city hall... finally the 70% or so
non-smokers have a city council willing to stand up for us... aside from
the very real health risk data and smoking-in-the workplace issues the
plain and simple basic fact is that tobacco smoke is a major
inconvenience. 

Imagine the time and money saved on laundry alone! 

Personally, I found it quite insulting to listen to tobacco-sponsored
media emphasising the "enforceability" issue (just about every radio,TV
and print media outlet here seemed to do it) instead of helping explain
why the law is a good idea in the first place and/or why we wanted it...  




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