6 — Wednesday, October 19, 1994 — North Shore News th ee a Yel DoN'T WoRRY Any WE'LL GET YouR CAT OWT OF THERE RIGHT RTE a | ATS OFF to West Vancouver District 45 School trustees: they’ve put their 1. butts out in West. Vancouver schools, And they’ve also put the butts out of every- one else using School District 45 facilities. Liberal types might call the District 45 board decision te prohibit smoking in any of the school district’s buildings and other facil- ities an impractica! infringement on the rights and freedoras of such District 45 inhabitants as students. Others have raised bizarre concerns about the safety of students forced to go off school grounds to smoke. But right thinkers will just call District 45’s decision good common sense leadership. Because the facts remain that smoking is ' deadly and the younger a person starts smoking the more likely he or she is to become hooked on a drug that kills 5,300 British Columbians and costs the province’s 2 Boug Foot Chris Jchnson ok healthcare system $1 billion each year. Though they often operate as if they were wreathed in protective academic bubbles, schools are not worlds unto themselves. Reai world entities such as public transit, government agencies and businesses are all virtually smoke-free these days. The reason: tobacco smoke is bad for liv- ing things, and it has become bad for busi- ness. So in the spirit of providing modern stu- dents with knowledge of practical value instead of excursions in abstract navel-gaz- ing, the lesson for today is that, apart from any personal health risk taken on by those who choose to smoke, smoking is increasingly outside the bounds of social acceptability. _ It's just not cool any more no matter how much smoke is blown over the issue by stu- dent smokers and other soft-headed folk. Timothy Renshaw Linda Stewart urope way to EUROPE REVISIrED after a five-year absence loses none of its magic, even though nowadays it’s some- times a tad frayed around the edges. The glovies of Europe's two- thousand-year history — its palaces, castles. cathedrals and museums — still greet one again al every street corner in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Spain and Portugal. So does the latter-day Europe of IBM, Sony and satellite dishes; Coca-Cola, Burger King and McDonald's Golden Arches, Mercedes, Fords and Mazdas. The two Europes, however, are not always happy bedmates. The German economic power- house hums loud and clear in the crowded shopping mull at Frankfurt airport, which even boasts a Harrod’s of London store. In Mozart’s Salzburg teens wear- ing California T-shirts and back- to-lront baseball caps make one feel instantly at home. The trains we rode from Munich to Budapest via Salzburg and Vienna — one of them the fabled Orient Express — are fast, smooth, comfortable and keep time to the minute. With a Eurail pass bought in Canada they're also dirt cheap. From the “Eagle’s Nest” — a 6,000 ft. peak near Berchtesgaden where Hitler plotted to conquer the world — we drink in the stunning sweep of the Bavarian Alps. No wonder the man got delusions of grandeur. - Huge pictures of photogenic election candidates line the streets of Austria (Robert Redford would win in a landslide here). Vienna is friendly, smart and costly. We tour the Schoenbrunn Palace, watch the Lippizaners exercising in the Spanish Riding School, choose the wrong downtown eatery and'pay $75 for two distinctly modest lunches, . . Seen from high on the south bank of the Danube, Budapest has to be one of Europe’s most majes- tic cities, Ata single glance the eye feasts on an unparalleled assortment of stately historic buildings lining the broad curve of the river with its numerous bridges. Four decades of harsh communist rule have left plenty of potholes and peeling paint still to Peter Kvarnstrom Valerie Stephenson ee eas oH R rd CUAL ESCO ERA, napshots of on the HITHER AND YO be dealt with, especially in indus- . trial Pest on the north bank. But consumer goods abound, busy restaurants throb to gypsy music and most prices are haif of those in Austria. On to bustling Barcelona for a brief reunion with a long-lost niece in this land of the afternoon siesta — where stores reopen from 5 to 9 p.m. and few restaurants serve din- ner before 10. Viva Espafia! Next, a few relaxing days in the Algarve, Portugal’s 70-mile-long Riviera with its spectacular beach- es, dramatic cliffs and ubiquitous construction cranes at work on ever more highrise apartment hotels. They’re needed. Even as the off-season begins, almost every second person one brushes against is a Brit or German tourist. Finally, Lisbon’s colorful build- ings clinging precariously to the city hills, its spectacular harbor proclaiming Portugal’s lifelong love affair with the ocecns. Narrow streets and noble squares teem with humanity. Africans abound. And beggars squat everywhere — while mobile panhandlers work the customers seated at outdoor cafes. So much for the quick snap- shots. On Sunday we'll dig a little deeper into these two Europes of yesterday and tomorrow. 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