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The Canadian Cancer Society and Manitoba Tobacco Reduction Alliance (MANTRA) will appear before the city's standing policy committee on protection, community services and parks today in support of a ban.
Winnipeg is the last major city in the country without such a smoking ban on outdoor patios.
"The time for study and consultation is over," said Erin Crawford, the Canadian Cancer Society's senior director of public issues and community engagement.
"Winnipeg is being left behind. The science is clear and hundreds of communities throughout Canada that have already implemented this sort of ban."
The two groups will also urge the city to extend smoke-free zones to include city parks, sports fields, skate parks as well as public festivals and events.
Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Yukon all have legislation in place banning smoking in outdoor seating areas.
Extremism is a kind of lunacy and history shows that those leaders whom market extremist views are lunatics. Typically extremely dangerous ones. Smoking is about the last thing anyone should be concerned with considering the history behind political systems which have supported extremist with illegal laws that victimize others.
Seems like there's a poem somewhere's about that. Something about not standing up for someone else when they came for them, and so in the end you're left alone when they come for you?
Nazi Germany stands as a monument to the idiocy and blindness of the social justice warriors and health fanatics, the very kind whom formed the backbone of Nazism, and which built it's platform on helping people as well, for their own good don't ya know. LOL!
Oh yes, I know smoking isn't healthy but since when did being healthy have anything to do with the concerns of the politicians? People who's bread and butter is made from the meat and flesh of expendables, most of whom are so dumb as to actually support their war mongering, their taxations without representation, their corruptions and frauds.
Hitler lead the first ban on smoking. He himself forbid smoking anywhere around hiimself. One might suppose this had to do with himself being a lunatic of sorts.