Dear Editor:

In a recent edition of North
Shore News there were some letters
with complaints regarding the ban
on outdoor burning.

Last April | criticized Mayor
Marilyn Baker for not introducing
the ban cn open burning sooner.

The district council and the
Engineering department had four
years to study and prepare the
public for the ban on the burning
of the garden refuse.

Trees, branches and garden ref-
use should not be burned because
the amount of smoke produced by
such burning is enormous and is
not healthy for. anybody. The
groups of pevole that are specially
affected by the smoke are young
children, old people, people
allergic to smoke, people suffering
from lung diseases and particularly
people who have emphysema and
require the daily use of oxygen.

Mayor Baker and the council
have received numerous — fetters
supporting the ban on burning in-
troduced in 1982: the letters were
fram the B.C, Lung Association,
the Ministry of the Environment
and the Ministry of Health,

There were also petitions to stop
burning from people directly af-
fected by smoke, people who suf-
fer from asthma, allergies and
chronic bronchial diseases.

There is no other province or ci-
ty in Canada where open burning
of trees is allowed.

Almost 20 years ago all the cities
across Canada recognized the cf-
fect of residestial air pollution as a
factor in public health. The British
Medical Journal has published the
fact that the concentration of air
pollutants coming from bonfires is
70 times higher than that coming
from cigarettes,

Unfortunately, bad habits die

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that smoke from burning tons of
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Burning ban should have happened sooner

There is no question of minority or
majority rights, but itis a fact that
the habits of some people should
not make other people ill.

The ban on burning is long
overdue and requires just a little
more discipline along with plann-
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Dr. Olpa Avruamovic
North Vancouver

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