Public Asked to Comment on Draft Smoking-Vaping Bylaw
Prince George, B.C.- The City has developed a survey and website so residents can offer some feedback on the proposed smoking and vaping bylaw.
The new bylaw would expand restrictions beyond the current provincial regulations on where smokers (or vapers) can use nicotine or other substances.
The restrictions cover public and workplace buildings, hospitality patios, parks, trails, playgrounds and fields, bus shelters, and any place where the public may gather.
The website provides information about the proposed bylaw and access to the survey where residents can give their feedback.
The survey will be available online until Nov. 15. Residents can also offer opinion on the draft bylaw during the series of neighbourhood conversations set for October.
Copies of the survey are also available at the Service Desk at City Hall.
Comments
I have never been a smoker and vaping doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
The current bylaw isn’t enforced so what will change? Try walking into any entrant to UHNBC without walking past a group of smokers. Yuck
What about Vaping in the bike lanes?
None of the smoking bylaws have been enforced to date. This is all about the pious dictating what they want, and I think they’ve gone way over the top.
Cigarette smokers contribute millions in taxes to the budget of this province every year so I figure the anti’s can go pound rocks. I’m more worried about getting T-boned at an intersection here from some Liberal dope smoker and pot sales contribute nothing to the province. However, I am informed that our current mayor does not smoke pot, unlike aone in particular…
Millions is spent health care for smokers as they slowly rot into death.
Seamutt, there are lots of stories of people smoking getting cancer and dying from it. But Doctors tell me getting cancer is just bad luck, anyone can get it. Does smoking cause illness and death? Sure, so does texting and driving. But alas, my father died from smoking at 102. Dope smokers are going to be so upset when they can’t smoke where they want to, they’ll blame the regular smokers too, LOL.
Went on the city website and darn if I can find the survey. Anyone have heads up on where it is on their site?
Also had a dickens of a time finding the one for the Alternative Process. The city has the forms in the wrong areas. The Foreman Road form shows up in the Mobile Equipment Replacement and vise versa
Elector Response Form: Mobile Equipment Replacement Financing Bylaw No. 8678, 2015 (120KB)
Elector Response Form: Foreman Road Landslide Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 8674, 2015 (120KB)
http://www.princegeorge.ca/cityhall/legislativeservices/aap/Pages/default.aspx
Went on the city website and darn if I can find the survey. Anyone have heads up on where it is on their site?
Also had a dickens of a time finding the one for the Alternative Process. The city has the forms in the wrong areas. The Foreman Road form shows up in the Mobile Equipment Replacement and vise versa
Elector Response Form: Mobile Equipment Replacement Financing Bylaw No. 8678, 2015 (120KB)
Elector Response Form: Foreman Road Landslide Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 8674, 2015 (120KB)
princegeorge.ca/cityhall/legislativeservices/aap/Pages/default.aspx
Grizzly there are always exceptions but over all look at a smokers health over the general population. Cancer is not the only disease caused by smoking. Make all the excursuses you want but smoking is still a disgusting, stinking very unhealthful habit. Just why would someone want their life run by a stinking cigarette is beyond me.
I absolutely agree with you. As a baby home from birth, I was subjected to tobacco smoke till I left home, hence the addiction I have. The money I could have saved is astronomical, and I have yet to be a burden on others through the health care system, hoping that continues. Would I suggest to anyone else to try smoking? Absolutely not!
I would suggest to all that health care and money issues are a hell of a lot better without an addiction ruling your life.
A few days ago we saw a car slowly driving by in the PG Can Tire parking lot, young woman (mother?) with two toddlers strapped in their seats in the rear, driver’s side window rolled down a couple of inches, she puffing away merrily, looking at us with a defiant expression on her face! For sure she knew that it is illegal to smoke in a car that has a child or children in it!
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