‘smokers?. The custom = of. smoking: has been going. on | for hundreds of years.

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| Page 4, May’31, 1978's Nerth Shore News

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-There™ anti-smoking campaigns go- ing on these days. Today is. ‘‘Non-smokers’”’ day. More and more one sees ‘‘Thank you for not smoking”’ signs. — But what about rights for .

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This week the Inquiring” asks: ‘*Should smokers have any rights?”’

Fighteen-year-old

Avenue, North Vancouver was startled while cleaning. out her room Sunday after-.. noon by ‘“‘the loudest noise v have ever heard.’’. ae

The Cotton home is. next ots door to the flat area where:

hang gliders land after taking off from Grouse Mountain and the ‘“‘big boom” she heard was the. sound of one of them hitting her roof.

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The glider. operator, 28- year-old Locksley Mitchell, of Burnaby, had misdirected his landing and. hit. the Cotton’s roof. He slid down the wall and landed in a'

crumpled pile on the ground —

with his kite on top of him. “It was scarey,” said

Cotton. ‘‘When he landed it was louder than thunder.’’’

robbery’ just argument ||

When West . Vancouver Police answered a complaint of an attempted armed robber Monday they found

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Yes, smokers have rights,

too. We need compromises _ between smokers and non ~ smokers suchas areas. for ~~ smokers i in pubiic buildings. . a

_tohim but he was. ‘under ‘a lot

‘of stuff with that kite on top of. him. -and it was. difficult’ to reach: him. His friends came

and got the kite off him. "?

ment responded to situation and the flyer was

“I wént outside and saw this big kite and tried to get .

‘The distr “ie ‘ea . ‘the -.

smoking ..in — public .

‘buildings, I can. see our lives -

becoming. - over-regulated.

_Smokers..as.. well as non - - - smokers, should. ‘be: _accom-" a . - - modated.

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rushed to Lions Gate Hos-_. a

_pital, where it was found he had a dislocated hip and a broken leg. He was later said to be in satisfactory con- dition.

In Spite of the experience, 7: | C Cotton does not feel wary of

living so close to the hang gliders’ landing spot.

She says: ‘It’s’ only

happened once so it doesn’t bother me. They usually do really good jumps and land nicely,”

they were dealing with an argument between two men, one of whom had a gun. No arrests were made.

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Smokers need tights, too.

‘Many. people’ continue to -smoke and they. should. be listened to as well.

A 17-year-old North Van- couver .man was_ recently

awarded a total of $3,632. under the Criminal injuries _ Compensation Act.

_ The Young man had been. attacked and struck on the head’ by....a --male | “youth wielding. a golf. club.

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The victim, employed part. time, was ‘compensated for. loss of: wages and: ‘injuries

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