Anti-Smoking Push Likely to Pass: One Man's Opinion

By Ben Meisner

 Those businesses that built new "smoking only" rooms at their pubs and bars are not going to win the next round in the war to be able to smoke in their premises.

When first elected, there was a time that Premier Campbell was able to can the smoking ban imposed by the former NDP by shifting the matter over to the WCB effectively killing the ban. That will not be the case this go round and no matter what the small pub owners of the province will seek by way of exceptions, they will be fighting an uphill battle.

BC is simply following the line of other provinces in making smoking in public much more difficult. That move is designed to try and have people break the habit, which has been readily described by many doctors as much tougher than getting off of Heroin or other major drugs.

The Province of course hasn’t taken the tax on the weed off , so on one hand it is a big money maker for them although they will argue that more money is spent on smokers trying to save their health then they receive in taxes.

Regardless, there is a move in not only Canada but in most western cultures to try and bust the people from the habit.

Tough or not, it is going to be very poor sledding for those people who smoke and want to go out to public places, because the next move will be to ban public smoking regardless of where and that is only a flick of a butt away from the legislative grounds.

I’m Meisner and that is one man’s opinion.

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