Smoking

EDITORIAL – Plan to raise the smoking age year by year is brilliant

November 23, 2023 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHAT IF we could ban all sales of tobacco? Think what it would do for the health of our country. Impossible, you say? Well, the UK is moving [Continue]

PETERS – This message will self-destruct

August 26, 2023 // 0 Comments

GENERALLY, WE’RE LEARNING MORE and advancing as a society. The arc of history has moved in the direction of wiser decisions based on new discoveries, despite what some [Continue]

EDITORIAL – New ciggie warnings will make smoking stigma even bigger

August 1, 2023 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. NEW CIGARETTE WARNINGS are the law as of today, though it will take time to phase them all in. For the first time, warnings will be printed [Continue]

JOHNSON – A story about how I quit smoking after almost 40 years

August 15, 2022 // 2 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON ArmchairMayor.ca Contributor THIS IS A STORY of how I stopped smoking cigarettes. First the disclaimer. I used vaping products. I do not in any way endorse [Continue]

GINTA – Maybe we should take a better look at what our children are using

January 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

WE LIVE CLOSE to one of the public high schools, which means that on any given day during lunch break, there is a stream of teens walking in front of our house, many of them [Continue]

KNOX – Not many smokers left to complain about ban by B.C. ferries

January 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

AS OF MONDAY, you may not smoke anywhere on a B.C. Ferries vessel or at its terminals. No smoking tobacco, no smoking e-cigarettes, no smoking dope (yes, the ban includes [Continue]