I was at the hockey game this past weekend, where you? If you were, did you work your way through the smoke outside the entrance? I remember when I sat on Council, we passed a progressive piece of legislation that outlawed smoking on all town owned property – including the stadium and stadium grounds. At around the same time, several other government departments and agencies, as well as some privately owned shopping malls, also adopted policies outlawing smoking on their properties. It seemed like the thing to do. Since that time I have seen this rule made a mockery of time and time again – not just at the stadium but virtually everywhere that adopted the policy. Like many of the rules that are made, I wonder if they are made more to “look’ like some organization is being progressive rather than actually being progressive. Old habits die hard, both for the organizations that make the rules and for those who choose to ignore the rules. Now I'm not out to
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