Many homes can't afford the $60- 100,000 needed to comply with strict ventilation requirements. Especially since they have recently upgraded their smoking rooms.
"The controlled smoking area must be equipped with a separate ventilation system that supplies a minimum ventilation rate of 30 litres per second per person for the maximum permitted occupancy of the controlled smoking area and that exhausts to the exterior of the building." Does hurricane force winds come to mind? I beleive it should, and isn't needed.
ontario regulation 48/06
made under the Smoke-free ontario act http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06048_e.htm
Socialist over-regulation is not without fatalities.
FReeper blinded wile reading article lacking paragraphs. =)
The arrogant, selfish, smug, self-righteous, condescending nanny culture kills people. Simple as that.
What a bunch of intolerant and junk science fascists.
Thank God this person died doing something they enjoy. The policy, not the cigarette is what killed them.
My mom died of COPD (emphysema) from smoking 2 to 3 packs a day. She even took her little oxygen tank into the smoking room of her assisted living facility. She sneaked cigarettes into and smoked in her private room, totally forbidden.
She also said that she'd rather smoke than breathe.
I think that cigarettes or nicotine are as addictive as heroin.
I don't know, I've never tried either.
Elderly? At 65?? Senator Byrd at almost 90 is elderly. The rest of us are just starting to live at that age.