Halifax’s complete ban on smoking on municipal property, including streets and sidewalks, went in to effect today. People who smoke or vape tobacco or …
ban cars, that would help more, but then there would be a civil war.
THIS WONT STOP ANYONE
GOOD START!!!!!
What about the pollution from vehicles?
Must be nice to live in this utopia where there aren’t any problems bigger than public smoking.
How did you guys end crime, homelessness, poverty, drug addiction, and child abuse?
The rest of the world would like to know since you have this time and resources to commit to smokers.
Good they shouldn't have the right! Finally I can let my children go outside now that the air isn't LITERALLY A XENOPHOBIC TOXIC WASTE ZONE!
Love how all the smokers in here are getting butthurt over not being able to smoke in public lol. Get a life and go have a beer 🙂
This is awesome, I’m done with inhaling secondhand smoke!!! I didn’t have a choice before this law!
glad i left n.s always backward trying to be progresive. iguess the people in power are bored. the province needs tofind people work instead of losing all its young people to other provinces .
lol good luck with enforcement
Smoking ban to the world 🙂 Would really enjoy not having to walk by smokestacks! At the same time, they should all the other green stuff, like making buildings more efficient, use passive heating & cooling, electrify transportation and reduce energy demand for it and other things. Use the cleanest incineration equipment to supplement passive heating. Basically, smoking is annoying but it's hardly an issue compared to other global problems. Practically don't know how this utopian idea would work. If we would drastically reduce the consumption of tobacco then farmers would have more space to grow food and littering of thoes filters would not be an issue.
Make it illegal to smoke tobacco!
Canada should make that a federal law!
So who else is never going to Halifax?
I hate the smell of smoke. I agree. Go Halifax
Freedom is dead.
And once all smoking has been eliminated they'll start coming after you for eating red meat in public. I'm sorry sir, you can eat your burger, just not hear. Then the religious will get on board. And it will be, we don't even want you think about smoking or eating red meat.
Blacks under Jim Crow were allowed on municipal property.
Ridiculous!
Wow that is ridiculous. 😂 Soviet Scotia
I'm not even a smoker and I think this is totally ridiculous! What's next for the human race? Is the government going to ban breathing next? We are slowly losing all of our freedom rights.
Kind of reminds me of a Burton cummings song; "Fine thing, fine state of affairs… " Except in this case it's "Sad thing, sad state of affairs…." This was so obviously done as a backlash to the legalization of pot. They rationally thought we can just make it illegal to smoke anywhere in public, including cigarettes. They essentially have a city where smoking is illegal in any form anywhere. Rental owners are stopping people from smoking in their apartments. So what happens to people that don't own a home, they are left to break the law to smoke. Can't smoke at home, can't smoke at work, can't smoke in public, can't smoke in bars. I guess in Halifax you have to be well off enough to own a home if you wanna smokevape cigarettes or pot. So pot is legal in Halifax, but only if you own your own home, and that better not be a condo, cause you probably won't be able to smoke in that either. Rules for the rich and rules for the poor. Sad state, sad state of affairs!
It's okay we can still smoke car exhaust or sign up for Canada's assisted suicide which is available now based on the grounds of sadness. This is extremely orwellian to say the least
I live in Halifax and I don't smoke but I do vape…..I'm not a cloud chaser and what I do doesn't leave butts on the street, now I'm not allowed to vape!!! I quit smoking two years ago but I'm standing with the smokers on this one….it's freaking ridiculous.
Just say you can pay my fine with the tax that that i paid on whatever your smoking and walk away smokes are around 5 or 6 bucks the rest is tax
Makes sense, safer to smoke with your kids in the car with the windows up.
April fool's?
Enforcement will start with people throwing thier butts on the ground being charged. It will be a base littering charge, the littering charge plus fees to procecute. DNA samples could be taken to match with the disgarded butts. Alot of crimes could be solved with this, even if it only lasts a year or two.
So what you can't smoke in your own car a on a public road?!
I won't be visiting Halifax anytime soon.
Oh let's ban bbqs and meat smokers and diesel trucks to just for a start
I'm a vapor and live in Halifax and will continue to vape outside. This law is just ridiculous and I only heard about it for the first time last week. How does something like this get passed? The good thing is I saw at least a dozen people smoking or vaping today walking down the sidewalks. One of them smoking as a cop drove by. Their is no way this law will be inforced.
Why don’t they give back all the tax money gain from all the cigarettes sales every dime and penny no money for them
This yokel town is living one hundred years in the past. G'bye…
Whatttt ! !!!
"The first major Canadian municipality" Wow, I'm pretty sure this is the first time the national CBC has acknowledged Halifax at all.
Wait no vaping too? Lol. You should force the public to wear mittens while they're in the downtown area as well.
Hahahaha. That's their creative idea to tackle the wave?
I hate smoking, but I also hate this ban. If I lived in Halifax I would start smoking or something just so the ban can get clapped.
like any other reckless behavior … if you can afford the penalty and fines then do it
Government over-reach and completely unenforceable
Good for Halifax!!
lol what a joke. Good luck enforcing that one lol
Come on let’s grow up if you want to smoke. Smoke at home if you’re afraid it would harm the ones you love that’s cause it does and you’ve been ignorant about it till now. I for one support this. Charity begins at home. If you can’t do it at home don’t do it outside.
Please search and share my story: Karen B. My path to flat earth
We have as much freedom as we are told we can have.
ban cars, that would help more, but then there would be a civil war.
THIS WONT STOP ANYONE
GOOD START!!!!!
What about the pollution from vehicles?
Must be nice to live in this utopia where there aren’t any problems bigger than public smoking.
How did you guys end crime, homelessness, poverty, drug addiction, and child abuse?
The rest of the world would like to know since you have this time and resources to commit to smokers.
Good they shouldn't have the right! Finally I can let my children go outside now that the air isn't LITERALLY A XENOPHOBIC TOXIC WASTE ZONE!
Love how all the smokers in here are getting butthurt over not being able to smoke in public lol. Get a life and go have a beer 🙂
This is awesome, I’m done with inhaling secondhand smoke!!! I didn’t have a choice before this law!
glad i left n.s always backward trying to be progresive. iguess the people in power are bored. the province needs tofind people work instead of losing all its young people to other provinces .
lol good luck with enforcement
Smoking ban to the world 🙂 Would really enjoy not having to walk by smokestacks!
At the same time, they should all the other green stuff, like making buildings more efficient, use passive heating & cooling, electrify transportation and reduce energy demand for it and other things. Use the cleanest incineration equipment to supplement passive heating.
Basically, smoking is annoying but it's hardly an issue compared to other global problems. Practically don't know how this utopian idea would work. If we would drastically reduce the consumption of tobacco then farmers would have more space to grow food and littering of thoes filters would not be an issue.
Make it illegal to smoke tobacco!
Canada should make that a federal law!
So who else is never going to Halifax?
I hate the smell of smoke. I agree. Go Halifax
Freedom is dead.
And once all smoking has been eliminated they'll start coming after you for eating red meat in public. I'm sorry sir, you can eat your burger, just not hear. Then the religious will get on board. And it will be, we don't even want you think about smoking or eating red meat.
Blacks under Jim Crow were allowed on municipal property.
Ridiculous!
Wow that is ridiculous. 😂 Soviet Scotia
I'm not even a smoker and I think this is totally ridiculous! What's next for the human race? Is the government going to ban breathing next? We are slowly losing all of our freedom rights.
Kind of reminds me of a Burton cummings song;
"Fine thing, fine state of affairs… "
Except in this case it's
"Sad thing, sad state of affairs…."
This was so obviously done as a backlash to the legalization of pot. They rationally thought we can just make it illegal to smoke anywhere in public, including cigarettes. They essentially have a city where smoking is illegal in any form anywhere.
Rental owners are stopping people from smoking in their apartments. So what happens to people that don't own a home, they are left to break the law to smoke. Can't smoke at home, can't smoke at work, can't smoke in public, can't smoke in bars. I guess in Halifax you have to be well off enough to own a home if you wanna smokevape cigarettes or pot. So pot is legal in Halifax, but only if you own your own home, and that better not be a condo, cause you probably won't be able to smoke in that either. Rules for the rich and rules for the poor.
Sad state, sad state of affairs!
It's okay we can still smoke car exhaust or sign up for Canada's assisted suicide which is available now based on the grounds of sadness. This is extremely orwellian to say the least
I live in Halifax and I don't smoke but I do vape…..I'm not a cloud chaser and what I do doesn't leave butts on the street, now I'm not allowed to vape!!!
I quit smoking two years ago but I'm standing with the smokers on this one….it's freaking ridiculous.
Just say you can pay my fine with the tax that that i paid on whatever your smoking and walk away smokes are around 5 or 6 bucks the rest is tax
Makes sense, safer to smoke with your kids in the car with the windows up.
April fool's?
Enforcement will start with people throwing thier butts on the ground being charged. It will be a base littering charge, the littering charge plus fees to procecute. DNA samples could be taken to match with the disgarded butts. Alot of crimes could be solved with this, even if it only lasts a year or two.
So what you can't smoke in your own car a on a public road?!
I won't be visiting Halifax anytime soon.
Oh let's ban bbqs and meat smokers and diesel trucks to just for a start
I'm a vapor and live in Halifax and will continue to vape outside. This law is just ridiculous and I only heard about it for the first time last week. How does something like this get passed? The good thing is I saw at least a dozen people smoking or vaping today walking down the sidewalks. One of them smoking as a cop drove by. Their is no way this law will be inforced.
Why don’t they give back all the tax money gain from all the cigarettes sales every dime and penny no money for them
This yokel town is living one hundred years in the past. G'bye…
Whatttt ! !!!
"The first major Canadian municipality" Wow, I'm pretty sure this is the first time the national CBC has acknowledged Halifax at all.
Wait no vaping too? Lol. You should force the public to wear mittens while they're in the downtown area as well.
Hahahaha. That's their creative idea to tackle the wave?
I hate smoking, but I also hate this ban. If I lived in Halifax I would start smoking or something just so the ban can get clapped.
like any other reckless behavior … if you can afford the penalty and fines then do it
Government over-reach and completely unenforceable
Good for Halifax!!
lol what a joke. Good luck enforcing that one lol
Come on let’s grow up if you want to smoke. Smoke at home if you’re afraid it would harm the ones you love that’s cause it does and you’ve been ignorant about it till now. I for one support this. Charity begins at home. If you can’t do it at home don’t do it outside.
Please search and share my story: Karen B. My path to flat earth
We have as much freedom as we are told we can have.