No Smoking Under The Hood Of The Library

Anna Lozyk Romeo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:26:29 +0000

I man came out rushing from the Library. Not even outside the door he already had the cigarette lit. Is this allowed? Because he was leaving the non smoking area, is he allowed to smoke?

The second hand smoke filled the book drop off area and wasn’t moving because it was a calm weather, except I was moving because it really bothers me.

There are two, if I recall, no smoking signs at the entrance to the Library from the parking lot, probably for no reason at all.

Litter, Confederation Park Last Summer

‘Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.’ ~ by Mark Twain

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Anna Lozyk Romeo — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:51:11 +0000

I hate cigarette smoke, but the most I hate when others do not obey the rules. The reason for this post is my observation made on the weekend while shopping at the Upper Canada Mall in Newmarket.

We were coming to the main entrance when a driver caught us and other ladies off.

One of the ladies said – ‘so much for the crossing lines‘.

‘Yes I know, you cannot rely on those to protect you anymore, you really have to watch your back‘ – I replied.

‘So true‘ – she nodded.

At the entrance she pointed at the door which said that people should smoke at least 15 meters from the mall.

‘Look over there‘ – she pointed next. Couple of guys were smoking right at the entrance.

‘Yes no body follows the rules anymore‘ – I stated.

‘Yes, you are right. What can we do now? You have yourself a good shopping day?‘ – waved at me and disappeared in the crowd.

A Woman Smoking in the Town Park, Aurora

I must say her shopping wishes did not work for me that day. I had to go back on Tuesday because of interesting shrinking effect I experienced with Matthew’s clothes and a lady in the Old Navy forgot to take the magnetic security tag. How I made through the door, I don’t know.

Smoking should be banned. We all know the risks. It is now confirmed fact that smoking is dangerous to our health and environment. Cigarette butts are eaten by birds, children pick them up and when left to degrade all the chemicals enter the soil and then our water system.

I must say we did great progress here in Canada when comes to smoking. During my travels back in 2005 I suffered some crazy skin allergic reaction when exposed to smoke on the airports. The worst experience I had at the airports in Japan.

The airports in Japan have these designated smoking booths for travelers, however not fully insulated. Imagine this – a glass booth that can house about 50 smokers (always packed) with a thick smoke cloud above. And when there was a time to leave for the flight, the smoke cloud followed all the passengers. It was thick and every time we passed by one of those I was pouring tears from my eyes. I wish I had my digital camera then to photo that event.