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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'smoking'

June 17, 2008

All three parties in the Ontario legislature are backing a bill that will ban smoking in cars carrying anyone under the age of 16. You know, when Torontoist was young, we'd roll around seatbeltless in the back of flimsy subcompacts doing 150 on the highway while our parents drank beer and spewed out lungfuls of carcinogens, and we turned out okay. The provincial government has announced that two planned nuclear reactors will be built......

Continue Reading "Kid Car Smoking Ban, New Nukes, Little Italy Crosses Fingers"

May 12, 2008

The Star reports that many nightclubs are flouting city bylaws by allowing patrons to smoke inside their premises. I wonder if that's really the most pressing problem down in Toronto's little Gomorrah on Richmond Street. The city has chopped down nineteen healthy trees in a park near Don Mills and Leslie in a strategy designed to reduce teen loitering and drug dealing by making parts of the park more visible from the road. No......

Continue Reading "City Takes On Tree-Related Crime, Bernier Embarrassed But Secretly Proud, Myanmar Suffering"

April 22, 2008

Happy Earth Day! Take the strike-less TTC today in celebration. Brazen thieves stole a truck containing about $11,000 worth of broccoli from a parking lot near the 427 on the weekend. Police are warning residents to keep their delicious vegetables under lock and key, and to keep an eye out for some healthy, but gassy, bandits. The Province is moving forward with plans to force retailers to remove all cigarette displays and hide the......

Continue Reading "Hot Broccoli, Hide Yer Smokes, Peak Oil Again"

January 17, 2008

National Non-Smoking Week starts January 20—as most New Year's resolutions to quit go up in smoke. It's a shame that the National Non-Smoking Week website sucks. The layout is plain, the links aren't updated frequently, and the only materials up for 2008 are a few fact sheets and posters with this year's theme, "Taking My Life Back From Tobacco." (The artsier French version is better: "Ma nouvelle vie sans tabac" or "My new life......

Continue Reading "I Wish I Knew How To Quit You"

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