VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The Canadian Cancer Society says with this being National Non-Smoking Week, it’s the perfect time to ban people from lighting up in places like parks and patios.
Several municipalities in BC already have bans in place, but Kathryn Seely with the CCS wants to see a law that will cover the whole province.
“[It would make] smoking less normal for children so that they’re less likely to take it up. We’d like to see smoking eliminated in parks and playgrounds and on beaches,” she tells us.
“Restrictions on smoking in outdoor public places not only help de-normalize smoking for children; it’s also been shown that it helps people to quit or to cut back.”
Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Alberta and the Yukon already have bans in place.
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Hastings street cutting right though a residential community creates a higher risk of a cancer for more people than one guy smoking a cigarette in a park! Ban all traffic on hasting from boundary to barnet and all the other roads in that are set up the same then talk to me about smoking.
Most Cancer comes from What we Consume
Shall we also ban all industry, common household cleaners, domestic fireplaces, wood stoves, internal combustion engines, charcoal barbeques, and perhaps even flatulence? Each in their own way serve to pollute our air on a scale many times greater than a cigarette, pipe, or cigar. Yet on those items, there is a deafening silence from our Cancer Society.
There are just so many darned potential causes of cancer, but I guess it’s easier to target a small minority of the population rather than everyone, and every activity. It looks like you’re trying to do something rather than just collecting money.
I don’t smoke, but how silly would it be if you couldn’t even smoke outdoors? I can understand no smoking at playgrounds, but don’t take away a person’s right to smoke out in the open air (where you can always go to a different area if someone is smoking). Maybe parents should do a better job of educating their children to the dangers of smoking instead of relying on agencies to keep their kids sheltered.
I support this idea 100%. Smelling smokers is just foul.