Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Sagging casino business prompts wave of buyouts while smoking ban support lags

While the Manitoba Lotteries Corp. blames Winnipeg's tough smoking ban for the actual loss of 269 jobs and 21 million dollars in revenues, anti-smoking nuts continue to move from community to community falsely claiming smoking bans help the hospitality industry.

While the most recent Statistics Canada Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey shows smoking bans in pubs have the support of only 34% of Canadians, anti-smoking nuts continue to falsely claim widespread public support for these draconian restrictions.

While research repeatedly shows the dangers of environmental tobacco smoke are negligible to non-existent, anti-smoking nuts continue to falsely claim it causes thousands of deaths annually.

What does our future hold if we continue to allow public policy to be guided by those who knowingly deceive you?



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