Ad - Friday, November 9, 1984 - North Shore News

ON STAND ON CUTS

Bus officials can’t sway NV

A REPRESENTATIVE from B.C. Transit told
North Vancouver District Council Monday he will
advise the Transit Commission that Council wants
to see the 230 Lonsdale route reinstated as a
one-way loop rather than continued as a two-way

route.

John Mills said although
the 230 route change was

part of the overall area plan
designed last year by B.C.
Transit,

that he was

NEWLY-PUBLISHED BOOK,
Tobacco,

Smoke. Ring:

prepared to offer Council’s
resolution to the Commis-
sion for consideration before
the next transit budget is ap-
proved by the provincial

government on December 1.
If the reinstatement of the
one-way route is approved
by the Transit Commission,
Council is hopeful the
change will come into effect
by December. However,
Mills said there is ‘only a
remote possibility’’ that the
route could be implemented
any earlier than March,
1985, if it recetves the Com-

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

The

Money and

Multinational Politics, by Peter Taylor, of-
fers some useful insights into the reasons why the
merchants of brown death aren’t all arrested and
thrown into jail, like other drug dealers.

Previously, Taylor inter-
viewed a number of
Marlboro country cowboys,
including one who rode the
range with tubes running out
of his nose to oxygen tanks
strapped to his horse. Those
interviews went into a TV
documentary that was suc-
cessfully kept off the = arr-
waves by an injunction
sought by Philip Morris,
makers of those manly
Marlboros

Now Taylor has turned to
print. By his count, tobacco
‘*has wiped out more people
than all the wars of this cen-
tury "° He notes that govern.
ments, including ours, which
eagerly deploy scores” of
police and soldiers to crack
down on ‘‘dope smugglers”’
somehow always manage to
stand firmly on the side of
the tobacco growers and
dealers, as af nicotine wasn't
a kaller
itself

Why? There's no mystery
Mecpabuchs. mepabuckhs,
megabucks

drug par excellence

Phere are sex mayor tobac
co) Companies
around 40

world’s

who produce
cent of the
ciparetios, the rest

being manufactured by state

per

owned outfits ain Marxist
counties (Some opiates are
apparently okay for the
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countries, in Brazil, eight
times faster. At the same
time, vital forests are being
chopped down simply to be
used as fuel in the process of
curing tobacco.

Taylor notes that govern-
mental enthusiasm for tobac-
co can be easily explained by
the tax revenues that cigaret-
tes generate. Where there's
smoke, there's money. In
England, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer gets 75 pence
out of every package of
smokes, compared to 18
pence for the manufacturer

and 10 pence for the retatler

Here in Canada, the
unlamented Marc Lalonde
set back Ottawa’s own anti-
smoking program by pushing
for lower excise taxes on
tobacco to protect the
micoune traffickers

Around the globe, the
tobacco industry jointly
spends $2 bilhon a year on
advertising. In Canada,
magazine publishers shudder
at the thought of the loss of
as much as 16 per cent of
their advertising revenue
should the politicians ever get
around to putting their con-
cern for héalth ahead of their
concern for jobs and tax
money.

Smokers insist they have a
right to poison themselves
Of course they do It’s a free
society. However, recent

mission’s approval.

Mills attended Monday’s
meeting primarily to discuss
proposed changes in_ bus
routes affecting the Pember-
ton and Westlynn areas and
the Phibbs Exchange.

He reiterated an earlier
District staff report which
stated cutbacks were being
made because of low transit
usage due to the low popula-

studies in the US. have
shown that the hidden cost
per person in terms of

medical expenses as a result
of a lifetime of smoking
amounts to $59,000. In
Canada, of course, the tax-
payer shoulders the bill.

In all fairness, it seems to
me that anybody who smokes
should have to waive their
right to be covered for treat-
ment under Medicare, just as
parachute jumpers have to
waive their rights to. in-
surance. That would certain-
ly go along way to trimming
our medical bills, wouldn't
it?

Besides, why should | sub-
sidize somebody else's indif-
ference toward their own
health? In an accident, if you
didn’t take due caution, you
don’t get to make your full
claim. Why should it be dif-
terent in the case of smoke-
related illness? You brought
it on yourself

All agreed? Passed. Thank
you

Vote four

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tion base in
areas.

He said B.C. Transit had
intended to establish a route
in the Indian River develop-
ment area but that move was
reyected when the road grade
on Brockton Crescent prov-
ed too steep and unsafe on
which to operate a bus.

Prior to Mills’
entation, Mayor

the affected

pres-
Marilyn

For Responsible and Fair
Representation

Norm Vipond
NV. District Alderman

Baker cautioned Council to
ignore any transit issues
which they have no control
over, saying since B.C.
Transit is in charge of setting
out new schedules, their
decisions ultimately lead to
the implementation of new
routes or cutbacks in service
to existing routes.

‘‘We’re in a Catch-22 sit-
uation,’” said Baker.

XX

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