Even outdoors, in public places like parks, smokers continue to be hounded by draconian new laws…
Smokers in Ottawa will have to think twice before lighting up in parks and on public patios — the city’s new anti-smoking rules kicked in Monday.
Smoking on city property, parks and beaches and on restaurant and bar patios can now lead to a fine of $305.
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Last week, city council voted to extend the ban to hookah water pipes. The ban is on the grounds that the outdoor smoking is a public nuisance and creates odours.
If the issue really was about odours, they’d hardly bother banning hookah smoking, because anyone who has ever smoked a hookah knows they give off very little, if any, tobacco odour, mostly giving off a smell of the fruit flavouring in the tobacco / flavoured-molasses mixture smoked in them known as shisha; hookah smoke smells more or less like a car air freshener / deodorant.
So they’re lying through their teeth, about the grounds, as regards extending the bylaw to cover hookahs, at least.
number 1 indicator that a nation is becoming a Pussified nation:
No smoking dudes walking around the streets
Insofar as that is due to both the nanny / police state and female attitudes influencing them, I can agree. Yet I still see lots of people smoking outside clubs and bars, out on the street – and as many women as men…
I commented on the complex attitude of women as a whole towards smoking in this piece; I noted that some forms of tobacco seem more acceptable to women than others, and the Hall of Manly Excellence agrees; see their rating of the various types of tobacco for manliness here.
Interestingly enough, in times past, few Christians saw any contradiction between smoking and their faith; Johann Sebastian Bach even wrote a poem about the intersection of the two, for him; see here.