Fredericton — Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em because tobacco use in public is about to become more regulated than the Energy East pipeline. Today, Health Minister Victor Boudreau unveiled even more anti-smoking amendments to the Tobacco Sales Act — regulations that the minister claimed to be the most aggressive on the continent.
Last week, the provincial government released new measures to ban smoking from many outdoor places that may be used by children including restaurant patios, beaches, parks and sports fields. Also, new rules for e-cigarettes and vaping were announced, which will restrict those devices to smoking areas. This past Friday, the government subsequently revealed plans to prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes as well as candy and fruit-flavoured cigarillos as of Jan. 1, 2016.
But, the Liberal government isn’t done with smokers yet. Today, they released additional tobacco use limits, the most restrictive and punitive in North America.
Starting July 1, smoking in public only will be a legal activity between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. All types of public smoking outside of this 10-hour window are strictly prohibited, and punishable by a fine of $1,110. This restriction is to reduce the likelihood that a child will be exposed to secondhand smoke, and greatly reduce the risk of children witnessing the act of smoking.
Other new restrictions include the following:
- In addition to the fine, anyone caught smoking unlawfully will be forced to speak for the rest of the day using an electrolarynx, the medical device used to produce a robotic voice for people who have lost their voicebox due to cancer;
- Anyone under the age of 19 caught smoking will have to smoke the entire pack in front of an inspector, or eat an unfiltered cigarette and prove that they swallowed it;
- Each package of cigarettes now must include a simulated piece of diseased human lung;
- Citizens will be obligated by law to speak as sanctimoniously as possible to anyone seen smoking. The smoker must be told “you’re killing yourself” at least once every 60 seconds until the cigarette is finished;
- Smokers only can receive health care if they agree to wear a scarlet letter “S” on their hospital gown over their lungs while receiving services;
- The price of a carton of cigarettes will be increased to include the wholesale cost of an oxygen tank, which will be provided to local health-care facilities proactively on the smoker’s behalf.
At 20 percent, New Brunswick has the highest per capita smoking rate in the country compared to the national average of 15 percent. For those between the ages of 20 and 24, the rate is even higher at 28 percent. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, lung cancer accounts for about 25 percent of all cancer deaths in the province, and 85 percent of those cancers are caused by smoking.
“Smoking is set to become the most tightly controlled human activity in New Brunswick history,” said Boudreau. “As long as the government is paying for health care with tax revenue, we can justify just about any tobacco regulation and tax. So, we are just going to town on them.”
When asked whether there will be additional regulations on other health-adverse activities such as alcohol and caffeine consumption, unhealthy food, poor sleep, over-work, inactivity, lack of vaccinations, promiscuous unprotected sex, high-risk recreational activities, and poor oral hygiene, Boudreau was incredulous. “We can’t regulate those things the same way as smoking. This is still a democracy after all. I’m not sure what you are getting at.”
They say it will reduce the time children witnesses smoking is to take it off streets when they gna be smoking more in their own home ones with their own children witnessing it, breathing it ect all the time… Don’t make ne sence
nor does your response. English please.
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I have never seen or heard anything more ridiculous than what I have read. I’m a smoker, never smoked in my house or around my kids or anyone elses for that matter. But it’s ok for alchohol, strip bars to be open and for the government to continually rip us off. Make the person who buys alchohol have to pay for medical devices. While your at it make every smoker, alchohol purchaser and anyone who purchases condoms or admits to having sexual relations at ALL. to pay a hundred thousand dollar retainer for medical treatment. My God what have Canadians turned into, a bunch of retards are now making the rules, but from how bad I have seen Canada get over the past 25 years on all Government levels it’s no wonder. I’m a 15 generation Canadian who is ashamed to call myself that today. Can’t wait to retire and get out of this now stink, filthy, crime riddin Country run by complete Retards.
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what about drinking? its ok for young kids to see someone drinking but not smoke. wtf? this is just beyond crazy. this will cause was more illegal stuff going on. this is such a load of bs and im a non smoker who thinks this. like give me a break. why is it being sold then? why was it ever introduced here. so what are they gonna do take out all the fast food joints and any other thing that causes health issues for us? think about things before you do it government.
The difference is that a person drinking in no way physically harms anyone near them. Second hand smoke kills people every day. I have never smoked anything in my life and yet I am suffering from COPD from living 30 years with a chain smoker and working with coworkers who smoked constantly in our small office until it became illegal to do so. My children all suffered with constant ear infections, again attributed to second hand smoke…need I go on???
Firstly, I agree that smoking INSIDE public buildings isn’t fair on those who don’t smoke and can cause them damage but smoking OUTSIDE isn’t a problem and shouldn’t be. My question to you is do you drive a car, I don’t. Yet I have to walk and cross roads where I breath in toxic gases every day from drivers. What the government need to realise is that cigarettes are sold freely, people become addicted and its extremely difficult for some people to quit. It’s not a case of “just stop for 10 hours a day”. Look this post is bs anyway but I want to make a point if all citizens stoped smoking taxes would fly through the roof for everyone and currently car’s and factories pump far worse crap into people’s lungs and bodies then cigarettes.
My step father was having respiratory issues & had some testing done. The doctor asked him how long he had been a smoker. He never smoked a day in his life. Both his parents were chain smokers & their second hand smoke fried his lungs.
Calm down idiots, It’s obviously a joke! If you believe the gov would make a child smoke a pack of cigs or force them to eat one, force you to talk someon and make them feel stupid by telling them they’re going to die, if you see them smoking or better yet, forced you to use a electro larynx, just to embarrass you in public, then you don’t deserve the right to smoke because you’re obviously too stupid to be allowed to decide what’s good for you or not. Use your head people.
It’s pure BULLSHIT u can’t bully people. I’d fucking lose it on someone who ever try to make my kid eat a cigarette if they choose to ever be stupid…..force to talk with those boxes….having no health care shunning people who smoke….. CAN’T BULLY PEOPLE WHO SMOKE
i cannot believe the bs that is coming out. if this is real it will never stick. no parent in their right mind would allow something like that to happen.
FYI common sesne u fucking idiots can’t smoke outside forced to smoke inside with ur kids it will be making second hand smoking worse for children at home if there was even real
umm so its okay for business to poison our air we breath on a massive scale so long as they pay a hefty tax? correct me if im wrong but people pay the taxes for those cigarettes dont they? keep taking our freedoms away and your not going to like the end result
Thatll be the day when im forced to smoke INSIDE with my kids because the government decides its better to not smoke outside. Haaaaaa. Suck my imaginary balls..
Load of utter bollocks, right?
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I don’t believe this having to use an electronic voice thing and smoke an entire pack that’s bull shit this can’t be real
I can believe how many people read an article and automatically assume it is true, the internet doesnt lie….right. If you think this article is factually, please, please, please use your internet connection to look up the meaning of satire….wow people
ps love seeing the mayhem your articles cause, keep it up Manatee!
I heard the government is going to change the phrase “common sence” to “rare sence”, for the reasoning just read how many people believed this article was true. Lol
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I will smoke pot and cigarettes where i want fuck the goverment
I don’t think it is real… Because it kinda sounds like early signs of communism…
i smoke outside of my home and my vehicle! i have children! so are u telling me to smoke in my house with my kids! and what about alcohol! it kills people too the difference is that people who smoke know they are killing themselves but people who die related to alcohol didnt have a choice!
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they can goto hell were not prisoners but they seem think we are guess our so called gov thinks they control us are our wardens to our prison /city sorry but i will not listen to bullshit try charging me i’ll take it out on them it will not be taken lightly ..
Why if u want us to quit u the government don’t pay for the patch or other things to help us quit but just lay laws down and not help the people u so call care about
The governament needs to think more on getting our provinces out of the hole where is our right to freedom,smoking ,drinking,useing drugs,the pollution in the air,what is put into the food we eat etc. I also think the health care system ,seniors,and education should never be touched.Here is my thoughts on all this goverament is doing to its citizens of the world.
I think this is Great! I see adults smokig near kids a lot and it disgust me. The months I was nauseous cause of being pregnant I became sick because of walking near someone smoking. Its a bad habit and should be stopped. I hope other provinces take this on as well, I could see a lot of people stop smoking and kids not seeing this bad habit.
Its funny because parent smoke in the car with thier kids so really all of these politicians are retarded and obveously arnt thinking properly. Like really what diffrence will this make? People will still smoke in the house with thier kids and in the car and at the park and at the beach and everywhere else they go haha
Ain’t that some absolute bullshit there is no way that this could possibly be inforced
All us smokers start buying black market smokes. I don’t see y the government complain we get taxed to death no I’ll smoke where I want let them give me a fine. This is not Germany they arnt the gastopo
Are you kidding the government is nothing a group of people who think they can pass what they think are laws . What a god damn joke nothing like saying you can’t smoke here or there but you have to pay taxs , this is nothing but bullshit they all sit in cozy offices and try and dictate what the rest of the population is to do and not do . The real question should be asked how can the government try and tell us where we can and can’t smoke who pays for our smokes sure as the hell not the government I smoke and work hard so why can’t I smoke where I want when I want this is just another way of the government to scewr us over and the fines are outrages and what they are going to do to the ones that are under 19 make them smoke a whole pack or eat unfiltered smoke butt like come on really going that far as to belittle someone makes me suck
omg. wow. unbelievable . children smoke because of peer pressure, not from seeing others smoke.
Best read ever, made me laugh so hard. Just wish that some it were true.
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Okay now lets start doing the alcohol I notice we are spending millions on health care for alcoholics!!! They seem to get disability because they cannot function for work, they cause deaths of innocent people while driving list goes on. I guess the government does not attack alcohol because they do have expensive luncheons with drinks???? If your on the protcting mode here then start doing ALCOHOL ALSO!!!!
Lol already more restrictions on alcohol. Can’t drink it in public ever. High taxes. Can’t even have it open in public. Angry smokers really don’t think do they?
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I’m pretty sure alcohol consumption and promiscuous unprotected sex is already illegal in public. Lol
Even if this were true it would be very problematic cause one this is breaking so many of our rights as human beings it’s complete blastphome cause so many lines are being crossed I have been smoking for 10 years and I ain’t any closer to quitting then the day I started i will be buried in my coffin with a pack of smokes in my breast pocket and a lit one in my mouth that way I will have a pack to last me my trip upstairs or downstairs smoker for life and if you got a problem with that kiss the whitest part of my ass. I say good day!
you can’t make anyone eat or smoke a packet of cigs, your telling everyone what to do with their lives and how to live their lives, what about drinking in public 24/7 , your just one big laugh
Lawl! Look at all you people buying this, check out the onion for some more ‘facts’
Yes that is true this is still a democracy where does our government have the right to infringe on a private citizens right to use a legal substance. It’s about time we kick every single politician out if office and start again
Just take smokes out of the stores altogether ,,,but they wont do that because they make billions on it every yr
All powet to them …i wish we had that inbplace here in bc
stupid as fuck. no one that smokes will stop for a 10 hour time span. good luck government. you will lose.
Also on Facebook news, scientists have found a planet covered with cannabis plants…. Elvis isn’t dead and Santa is real……
Well I guess canada has become a communist country it was all right for you to kill my brother with agent orange an take my lobester licenses an now going to tell me what I can an can not do I don’t think so
If your and alcoholic, substance user there are places to go for rehab…a smoker has no where to go….with all these new restrictions maybe the government should just quit making tobacco products then we will see how fast Canada goes bankrupt
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Liberals are a fuckin joke enough said , they cant even run hydro yet alone this shit
People are screwed in the head, who or what fools come up with such dumbass laws, is this what we vote for, spend this energy on enforcement on anti drug laws, drunk driving, poverty, jobs, texting, cell phone use when driving the government created such a wonderful thing to smoke many years ago, it is a disease, an addiction. our kids now days need to get away from social media and get out doors get a life not looking down in their hands holding their cells, that is going to kill them sooner then smoking, and yes I am a non smoker.
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no wonder our country is in such bad shaoe people get wacked out and believe satire as truth learn to read before making dumbass remarks there are even disclaimers and people still believe it.damn.
Really this is a little dramatic you wanna try and do all this crap good with all this money you will be making from all the smokers out there try and tell everyone how you have been steeling money from them every year on cancer and how to cure it let talk about that. Oh right the government won’t talk about it why because while there dumb self’s are getting rich off of us they have a cure for cancer but because the government won’t make money from it “greedy” why cause it cost less the a penny to treat when will you people stop being greedy I remember as a child watching on TV here’s smokes there so amazing you should try them you get us addicted and then want us to stop. This is nonsense what else are you gonna through at us come on give us your best shot you money hungry effs. Can hardly afford anything while you all layed back with everything you need. Just the greed makes me sick.
What the heck! This is crazy! I am not sure why the government thinks they have the right to make these great sweeping laws on people and such activities. They should not forget that the right to choose is an important freedom that Canadians and other free counties cherish and they were not voted in to make laws that impact these rights. I think it is crazy and a money grab. Some controls are fine but let’s get real here. No smoking inside that is logical. Smoke gets trapped and effects everyone but outside, in parks, on side walks, on beaches or even certain patios…. I have not done my research but would think that there are enough other pollutants that the bullies should stop punishing the individual and go after some one else. Just sick of my rights taking a back seat. Over it.
watching people think this is real is pretty much the best part of this.
That’s really dumb to worry only about second hand smoke from cigarettes … when the air is being polluted by things much more dangerous than second hand smoke… What about factory’s pumping crap into the air, what about cars?
,AYBE THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD STOP SELLING THE SMOKES INSTEAD OF TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE DO ALL OF THIS…. BUT NO THEY WANT THEIR CAKE AND ICING FROM SELLING THE SMOKES .BUT EXPECT PEOPLE TO STOP SMOKING AND MAKING THESE THREATS TO SMOKERS…HOW DARE YOU TRY TO CONTROL OUR FREEDOM BY YOUR LAWS BECAUSE OF YOU WE ARE SMOKING YOU ARE THE ONES WHO ARE MAKING THE TOBACCO FOR PEOPLE TO START SMOKING SO STOP BLAMING US FOR EVERYTHING ITS YOUR FAULT YOU SELL THE TOBACCO AND MAKE IT.