12:-.Sunday, October 6, 1985 - North Shore News
inquiring
reporter

by
Barrett
Fisher

ICBC Corporation recently had all of its
employees - butt out. their cigarettes during

company time, ‘after the corporation decided |

to not allow smoking on the job. The conflict
between smokers and non-smokers is nothine
new, but with such a company policy, : Inquir-
ing Reporter asks people on the street if they
agree or disagree. Today’s question is:

Should companies invoke
non-smoking policies?

. ‘Arlene Crossen
: North Vancouver

“"T think ‘people should be .

a . allowed..to’ smoke. A

company could move |

workers around to. have
. smoking and non-smok-

ing departments, like they - |

do in cafeterias.

“Mark Harrison
North Vancouver
It’s a good policy, but it

NORTH VANCOUVER Ci-
ty Ald, Dana Taylor would
tike the city to build a park

facility for children to cool.

off during warm weather.

In a motion to council,
Taylor requested the city
engineering department
allocate sufficient funds in
their 1986 park development
budget to construct a
chiidren’s water play facility
at cither Mahon Park,
Grand Boulevard Park,
Derek Inman Park or a simi-
lar park.

Taylor used Vancouver's
Granville Island Water Park
as an example of a successful
facility which the. city could
use as a comparison.

Taylor described his pro-
posal as a playground area
for children featuring water
in recreation activities.

Features for the proposed ,

low operation-costs park

could include a water. slide, amy
- fire hydrants, wading pools,

fountains and ponds, Taylor

‘Council agreed to refer the -

motion to the city’s 1986

budget committee:

also takes away People’ s_ i ; :

“undecided really, because
a. where does the butt stop?

ip lomacy to‘not im- |

"pose. smoking on -some-

not forced. °

Ted Crossen
> North Vancouver .
I. think it should be an

‘individual’s choice. A | |

compsuy.shouldn’t have
the right to enforce it.

John Gaudreau

Vancouver

_ like the’ decision per-

sonally because I’m a
* non-smoker. Anything

that will help get rid of
§ smoking in the air will
‘help all of us.

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