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Cancer society wants further restrictions on smoking
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CKNW News Staff | Email news tips to nwnews@cknw.com
1/20/2013

The BC government is being urged to support further restrictions on outdoor smoking.

The request comes from the Canadian Cancer Society.

The society's Kathryn Seely says BC needs to follow the lead of four other provinces and designate outdoor patios of bars and restaurants as well as beaches, parks and playgrounds smoke-free.

She adds 30 BC municipalties have strong anti-smoking bylaws, but a sweeping ban is still needed.

"If the province acts, it could eliminate the patchwork of bylaws across the province and enhance protection for all British Columbia children to protect them from exposure to second hand smoke."

Tobacco use remains the largest single preventable cause of death and disease in the province, killing more than 6-thousand British Columbians each year.


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  1. guidos posted on 01/20/2013 08:48 AM
    Okay,okay! We ALL know smoking is bad for you and we should quit. What I don't need is for the government to pass more laws to control what I do and where I do it. I am an adult in a (supposedly) free society and resent being treated like a child. I am respectful of others and watch where I light up but I will not follow some ridiculous law. Look at the black smoke pouring out of the diesel trucks driving by these same beaches, parks and playgrounds and tell me someone having a smoke 20 feet away is a danger o your health.
    1. rossj_9294 posted on 01/20/2013 07:43 PM
      @guidos I agree that the diesel trucks are polluting far too much and diesel exhaust can cause many illnesses. But to say it's OK to smoke because the others are also polluting sounds a bit selfish and has a lot of the attitude of the "it's all about me" society.

      If you are so adamant about doing your thing as an adult in what you call a "(supposedly) free society", then perhaps you would like to pay for your own medical bills when you are diagnosed with throat cancer or a heart attack or some other terrible illness caused by smoking. But I hope you never get sick like that.
    2. UnemployedinBC posted on 01/21/2013 11:41 PM
      @guidos House hold insulation causes cancer in lab rats (when surgically implanted) Well DUH.
  2. GlenL_3 posted on 01/20/2013 11:46 AM
    Having recently quit smoking January first, I have to say that not seeing advertising has helped me stay of Cigs. Further to that if I did not see others smoking near me when I go for a beer or a run through the parks that would help allot. I know it is hard to quit and not sure how I have stopped this long but I hope others can stop too.
    Good Luck!
    1. speakup posted on 01/21/2013 11:34 AM
      @GlenL_3 Don't look now BUT someone is having a BURGER over there - does that make you want clog your arteries too??

      BANN all Burgers!! Save lives

      OMG how can YOU BLAME others for your shortcomings?
      U are brainwashed man -
      live your own life
      take responsibility for your own actions!
  3. AndreaK_5056 posted on 01/20/2013 06:05 PM
    As much as I hate having to pass somebody who's smoking on the sidewalk, holding my breath. What I hate worse is the litter! You entitled smokers who want to smoke wherever the heck you want but then also feel you're entitled to throw your butts on the ground. The roads are an absolute disgusting ashtray full of discarded butts from walkers & drivers alike. There should be a $1/pack tax that goes towards cleaning up your mess. (And don't get me started on the twits who set road side landscaping on fire during the dry months when they throw their still lit butts out of their car windows...)
  4. rossj_9294 posted on 01/20/2013 07:37 PM
    What do people think would happen if a company starts to sell a new product that in the first year killed over 6000 people in B.C. alone? Do people think that there may be an uproar demanding some heads on a platter for this to happen? Yet people pay a huge amount of money to smell badly, to poison their families and friends and to increase dramatically their risk of dying a terrible death while at the same time defending this product. Sounds like the thinking of a drug addict.

    I never smoked but I grew up around many smokers and I know it isn't easy to quit. I wish all the smokers would realize the damage they are doing to themselves and their loved ones and find the ability to quit.

    I won't even start on the mess they leave on the ground in the case of butts. I wish the police would enforce the litter laws for anyone littering, not just for smokers.
  5. CarolL_9 posted on 01/21/2013 10:11 AM
    The Canadian Cancer Society is calling for a smoking ban in all public places, like parks and beaches and playgrounds.

    There is absolutely no scientific linking between the detection of the smell of smoke in a park, and cancer.

    Where the smell may not be pleasing , it is not dangerous to health.

    This follows the hysteria of the Canadian cancer society and it’s call for a ban on cosmetic pesticides and herbicides
    which legally stops me from applying weed and feed to my lawn, but I can pay a company to do it.

    I had intended to give my estate to the Heart & Stroke Fund, The Salvation Army, And The Canadian Cancer Society,
    as I have no Heirs, But if the Canadian Cancer society is going to waste my money by useless social engineering,
    they are being taken out of the will as of this week
  6. speakup posted on 01/21/2013 11:38 AM
    Tha Cancer society who have us ALL believe that SMOKING is
    the ONLY Cancer causing element!!

    Is this what ALL THE MEGA CANCER MONEY raised and collected
    has concluded????

    or .....is the Cancer society sooooo top heavy with PAID employees and HUGE admin costs now have to justify making some 'noise' to keep their well-paid jobs!?!?!

    NOW they want us all to be scared of 2nd hand smoke!
    if someone is smoking on planet earth- you could be harmed!!!

    Think of ALL that MONEY they have been sent over the years.......
    hmmmmmm - does it ALL go to making everything PINK?
  7. GlenL_3 posted on 01/21/2013 11:45 AM
    CANCER IS NO REASON TO QUIT SMOKING!
    1. speakup posted on 01/21/2013 11:49 AM
      @GlenL_3 WHy do stats still show women get more cancer then men?
      Cleaning solutions? make-up? tampons? daily stresses????
      I am sure the LIST if LONG and SCARY...........
  8. BieberStoner69 posted on 01/21/2013 06:48 PM
    The worst people are the ones who stand in front of the hospital entrance and smoke, what a bunch of scum.
  9. UnemployedinBC posted on 01/21/2013 11:37 PM
    And we all know how much power the BC Cancer society has. Feeding off the ill and dying while a Doctor in Alberta finds a cure for Cancer in a medication that is already on the market. the Cancer societies answer on why they do not support the newly found cure? Oh but it doesnt kill the Cancer fast enough. The next round of unemployment ide love to see is glass tower Cancer society people sitting in Work BC all day, but we all know that will never happen as too much money is made from Cancer and real cures will be silenced.
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