Ontario driver hit with $305 fine for smoking in his truck because it's considered his place of work

[Newsjock]

Source: The Globe and Mail

An Ontario truck driver has been fined $305 for smoking in the rig of a tractor-trailer because it is considered a workplace.

Provincial police pulled over a truck on Highway 401 near Windsor, Ont., on Wednesday when the driver was seen smoking.

The Smoke-Free Ontario Act adopted in 2006 prohibits smoking in enclosed workplaces and public areas, such as bars and restaurants.

Neil MacKenzie, the manager of tobacco programs for the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, said even a farmer's enclosed tractor would be considered a work environment.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/trucker-fined-for-workplace-smoking-after-lighting-up-in-rig/article1316944/

[Mz Pip]

1. Don't they have

anything better to do?

[bbinacan]

2. In a word this fine is

Bullshit.

[johnnie]

4. That is the law in a few places

I think we have it here in Ohio.

[The Straight Story]

3. And the religious wack job fundies keep on going strong, sad we have so many here as well

Your body, Our choice.

[virgogal]

5. Oh puhleeze. The more liberal the area the faster they went smoke free.

The religious wack jobs had nothing to do with it.

[The Straight Story]

6. I was referring to liberal fundies

The ones who want to control the lives of others based on what they see as 'best for them'.

Like I have said before - my body, my choice, was once something liberals clung to, but have abandoned that as they map health care and such to money printed by governments...much like fundies map denying choice to sins and the church.

Either you believe my body/my choice, or you don't.

Do you?