"Weed less Wednesday" has now started in Ontario. Yesterday the new law that says that you can't smoke in a car with a child present has been enforced. If a person in the car is smoking with a child 16 or younger in the car can face fines up to $250. Many other states and provinces have enforced similar bans in places like New Brunswick and P.E.I., and also places in the states like California and Louisiana. Many people have arguments saying that there will be very few people charged by this law and it might be considered useless. Others have said that the Ban is just another thing that keeps the thought about quitting in the back of smokers minds. This is just another step to a smoke free Ontario that had started in 1977.
I think that this is a great thing that the Ontario government is doing. Although if you do go on to read the whole article I do agree with the NDP's that it would be more logical to make it enforced if there are people that are under the age of 19 in the car, when it is legal to buy cigarettes. I know that the smoking market is huge and the government will never take cigarettes of the shelves and ban them completely because of all the tax money they get off them. We have to give the government some credit though they are trying to influence the general public to cut back on smoking. I don't think that this law will work that well but if the people are caught than they are less $250 and I bet that after that moment it will never happen again.
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