So you see, I don’t care about studies because I don’t really need them. I have my own unique perspective based on common sense and personal experience. Just like my feelings about movie reviews, the only opinion that matters to me is my own. I share it only because I can, not because I want change peoples minds or think everybody is wrong. I’m not a non-smoker zealot at all and abhor childish name calling. I’m totally for freedom of choice and liberty. If you want to kill yourself, go right ahead. I honestly don’t care. All that I ask is that you please don’t make the mistake of assuming it gives you the right to take me with you. Like someone eloquently wrote just the other day, the freedom to swing your arms wildly about ends at my face. You’re free to exercise any right you have so long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others. Feel free to light up anywhere but around me, thanks.

http://www.junkscience.com/news/wpetsver.html

A new study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer has been hailed by the tobacco industry as proof that there is no risk from secondhand smoke, and that it may have even a protective effect against cancer. Many newspapers overseas, including the Times of London, have reported on the study, which is still undergoing peer review and has not been published officially. The industry has accused the study’s sponsors, the World Health Organization (WHO), of trying to bury the research.

trying to bury the reasearch ? i’m not surprised. anti smokers are like religious zealots. lying in the name of truth.

please link to documented proof of this claim.
please link to any if any exist deaths that are proven to be caused by second hand smoke and no othe rcause. see if you can do it without calling names. you can’t because there is no documented proof that hasn’t been disproven.

People bitch and moan about clean air but do nothing to stop the worst forms of pollution. Mainly car exhaust, oil refineries, coal power plants, factory exhaust, nuclear testing and rocket launches. Where are the lawsuits for them? I’d love to see a class action lawsuit for GM,Ford,Chrysler,Exxon,BP patrolium,Halliburton and Nasa charged with crimes against humanity.

Instead what you get is corporate bailouts, politically supported tax cuts, and highly touted scientific achievements.

Personally I think the whole thing is asinine. If you want to fix a problem look to the larger issue…

Good lord. We better remove speedometers too then, can’t have people taking their eyes off the road to check their speed. And the fuel gauge. Oh, and mirrors, checking your blind spot is surely a distraction to looking ahead. And anything else that provides information to the driver, it’s just gotta go.

It’s asinine to suggest a driver’s eyes must be straight ahead 100% of the time.

Let the truckers smoke in their cab, who else are they hurting?

I’m always amazed at the leaps of logic some people will take to defend the clearly wrong actions of the gov’t and police officers. They always resort to namby-pamby arguments involving ancillary issues such as public healthcare and tax dollars.

The issue at hand is: should an officer perform a traffic stop to enforce petty workplace smoking laws even though traffic stops create a safety hazard? Not taxes, and not the healthcare system.

BTW the ticketing officer had recently been reprimanded for smoking in their cruiser, and decided that pulling over a big-rig and fining the driver for smoking in his vehicle would be their way to force the issue into a debate. This is totally improper conduct for an officer. This is also against existing OPP guidelines for traffic stops.

The fact is, pulling over ANY vehicle on that highway puts the public, the driver, and the officer in significant danger. Accidents within 500m of a traffic stop are COMMON, and there are statistics that are publicly available every year that show this.

Anyone who thinks it’s worth-while to allow officers to make traffic stops based on this type of petty nonsense should give their head a shake. We’ve had officers and uninvolved motorists KILLED in accidents caused by traffic stops, one happened just about 7 years ago only 3 kms from where this trucker was pulled over.

NEVER FORGET, there are two kinds of tyranny — the kind perpetrated by evil men, and the kind perpetrated by those who THINK they are helping people. The evil men will occasionally have a shred of mercy and take a break, but the nanny-state do-gooders WILL NEVER STOP and will convince otherwise well-intentioned yet gullible people to participate.

Ontario IS becoming a police-state. Things have being going bad ever since disgraced Toronto top-cop Fantino was appointed OPP commissioner by our brilliant leader Dalton McGuinty.

No matter how bad a police state gets, there will always be fools that support it as evidenced by the above comment.

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I hope they all get busted as well. SWAT should be banging down the doors of known smokers and busting them and/or fining them.

No different.

i used to drive trucks and smoking or listening to the radio is the only thing you can do sometimes to not get bored. i know, it’s an excuse but it’s the only one i had.

anyway, cops aren’t supposed to interpret the law. they’re supposed to enforce it – unfortunately this cop doesn’t know the difference.

i live where there are still smoking sections in restaurants and you can still smoke in a bar.

but as for distractions, how about all of those internet, gps, dvd players and dashboard/headrest tvs that now seem to be standard in all new cars? how can the law allow that?

that’s what’s really crazy.

And then in another week they will start to pull us over for talking on a cell phone as we are trying to find directions to places, even thou they can talk all they want on their personal phones while on duty without anything being done to them.