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In May 2010 the Province of Sask. passed new regulations prohibiting smoking within 3 meters of a door, window or vent, &
(for City properties it's 9 meters), shortly after it was found that 2nd hand smoke was even more harmful than smoking.
Prince Albert, Sask, a city of 35,000 seems to think they are exempt from the law. With 40,000 Canadians reported to die every year from smoking related ailments, this is a serious issue.
Smokers stand right in doorways, up to 3 or 4 at once, right beside the large print No Smoking sign & smoke to their hearts content, even by the hospital, with no fear of reprocution for their illegal act.
This year I've personally seen 3 instances with people with
a lit cigarette inside a building.
I've had to walk on the street, J-walk to get away from smokers who are in violation every door they pass, hold my breath, cover my nose & if it keeps up will need a gas mask to walk on the sidewalk in downtown P.A.
It's 20l4 & in May will be 4 years since the regulations became
Law. Please enforce the law & let smokers know they don't have the right to put their cigarette smoke in our lungs. Please help keep the air fit to breath.
8 Comments
Doc (Guest)
maxp (Guest)
TJ (Registered User)
Local Reclycler (Registered User)
Back then we waited in the hallway while smokers stank out the office, kept
moving to dodge smokers, or just didn't go places. This is 20l4!! In the U.S.
200,000 people have died prematurely from 2nd Hand smoke. If anything else
caused the health problems & deaths that smoking does, there would be a
public outcry. If smokers want to pay the tobacco industry to kill them, do it
where they're not harming other people.
Wondering (Guest)
Daniel (Guest)
sensenkid (Guest)
Local Reclycler (Registered User)
is evidence to what the second-hand smoke contaminating the sidewalks & doorways of buildings anywhere the criminals decide it is O.K. to spread the toxic chemicals in 2nd hand smoke is doing.
This is a Province of Sask. law that was passed by the government in May, 20l0.
A pamplet from Health Canada states that pets can even get cancer from 2nd Hand Smoke so
imagine what it is doing to children & the rest of us.
Nothing has been done & the situation is only getting worse. If people drinking can be fined $250
for drinking in public, do the same with smoking! And if the city can have 3 people checking meters
in the downtown area; put them to work in something that is a life & death mater, not just a means
of driving people away from the downtown area.