Keith Richards In Canada Update
Oct 2, 2006
To the editor,
To the editor,
To stop Keith Richards, authorities might as well intercept him at the airport and take him into preventive custody.(?)
According to anti smoking’s logics he is likely to endanger the life of thousands of innocents bystanders in the stadium.
According to anti smoking’s logics he is likely to endanger the life of thousands of innocents bystanders in the stadium.
The self-serving anti-tobacco lobby made it’s point quite clearly:
“There is no safe level of exposure”.
“You would need a tornado to ventilate to a safe level.”
“Even a brief exposure can trigger a heart attack and put the cancer process in motion”
“There is no safe level of exposure”.
“You would need a tornado to ventilate to a safe level.”
“Even a brief exposure can trigger a heart attack and put the cancer process in motion”
Wake up people !
You are being taken for a ride. Don’t believe me, check it out.
Smoking bans are hurting: public health, safety, small local businesses, charities, democracy, personal freedom….
You are being taken for a ride. Don’t believe me, check it out.
Smoking bans are hurting: public health, safety, small local businesses, charities, democracy, personal freedom….
“Danger increases with ignorance and apathy” visit: www.cagecanada.ca
Jo?l Demers
Communications francophones-Public and media relations
C.A.G.E. (Citizens Against Government Encroachment)
jdemers@cagecanada.ca
Communications francophones-Public and media relations
C.A.G.E. (Citizens Against Government Encroachment)
jdemers@cagecanada.ca
Richards may get no satisfaction if stadium implements smoke ban
September 28, 2006
Heather Polischuk
Heather Polischuk
REGINA — The rules dictating whether or not cigarette-puffi ng Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards will be allowed to smoke on stage in Regina are somewhat hazy at this point.
“There are two pieces of legislation.
There’s the (provincial) Tobacco Control Act and then there’s the city smoking bylaw,” said Regina city solicitor Neil Robertson. “They both prohibit smoking in enclosed public places, but there’s always been a question of, for example, stadiums (and) how that applies to them.”
Robertson said the bylaw also refers to enclosed sporting arenas, but it leaves a question as to whether any smoking ban applies to open-air Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field — the venue for the biggest concert ever to hit Regina.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders previously decided to impose their own ban during CFL games, but those responsible for organizing other events at the stadium have to come up with their own rules regarding smoking.
The City of Regina’s manager of facility services, Rod Schmidt — who’s also a member of the Stones concert organizing committee — said concerns include not just fans’ cigarette smoke bothering other fans, but also the potential damage cigarettes could bring to the stadium’s artifi cial turf playing surface.
While some form of a smoking ban for concert-goers remains likely, there remains a question of whether it will extend to the stage area.
Schmidt knows what the organizing committee is facing: Richards is legendary for lighting up on stage and picking his way through guitar riffs with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. Schmidt saw it fi rsthand when he went to check out the Halifax show recently.
There seemed to be no fallout over Richards’s puffi ng in Halifax — but Nova Scotia isn’t putting into place its own full-bore public smoking ban until later this year.
In Regina, municipal fi nes for smoking in enclosed public places can reach a maximum of $2,000 for an individual and $5,000 for a corporation.
“But there have been very few prosecutions,” noted Robertson, explaining most people agree to butt out when asked, therefore avoiding the fi nes.
The two Rolling Stones concerts in Regina take place on Oct. 6 and 8.
