Following suit with the wacky health hysteria originating in the state of California, U.S.A., the 100% zero-tolerance smoking bylaw (ban) that came into effect January 1, 2000, has been a constant source of frustration for the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, and the neighbouring townships. It has been fueled by a campaign of anti-smoking zealotry & supremacy, completely ignoring the cries of business owners. Dozens of coffee shops, restaurants, bars, and bingo halls have gone bankrupt with absolutely no sympathy from city hall. Ignorance and flexing the muscles of power have been played out to a sold out show of spineless, apathetic citizens.
Militant, oppressive, treacherous, hard-line, commie, vigilant, hyper anti-smoking zealot extremist terrorist guerilla hysteric radical fanatics, who are the LOUD minority, spew forth countless hissy fits and lies about the completely unproven "dangers" of second-hand smoke, while utterly failing to conclusively prove a single death has ever been caused solely due to exposure to ETS. Junk science and hyper-exaggerated statistics are bamboozling politicians into creating insane knee-jerk all-out bans on smoking in so-called "public places".
The nonsense must be stopped at once before other cities jump on the 100% BANdwagon.
It is a matter of choice in a democratic society where smoking has been perfectly legal for decades. Concentrating all of our health (and legal) matters on smoking is preposterous and foolish. Moderation must be exercized and the hate-crimes against smokers must end.
As a non-smoker, I present to you a collection of vital links. Please get involved, get informed, and let your elected officials know you don't support insane municipal government crackdowns on a perfectly legal product that is far from "dangerous" to non-smokers. Don't be fooled by the sensationalized headlines and the misinformation that the media thrives upon! The anti-smoking zealots are far more than just another special interest group... they are a new breed of loudmouthed cry-babies who cannot be taken seriously! The anti-smoking lobby is so well organized, it's scary! These zealots are so fanatical, that this issue of second hand smoke consumes their every thought. They are vindictive, out of control diatribes against smokers. These people are obsessed and they will not stop keeping up the pressure on politicians to get what they want.

New Zealand scraps world-first total-forever smoking ban in favour of reducing taxes -- the antis must be going berserk!
—As if doomsayer hyperbole about wildfire smoke wasn't preposterous enough, now Hamilton air is pronounced so 'deadly' that "it’s about one cigarette per day that people are breathing in"!
—Antis screeched about "no safe level of exposure" without hurricane force winds, yet liberalized policies on illegal drugs are now permitting "supervised inhalation" sites where people can smoke drugs indoors
—Banff smugly enacts an "everywhere" ban
—After pandemic panic about indoor air quality, now gas stoves are supposedly "deadly" too!
—Fittingly to their name, New Zealand thinks it can outlaw smoking incrementally, during a worldwide pandemic, no less!
—Health Canada frets 'deadly' air pollutants, but liberalized pot shops continue to be perfectly okay
—As if hypochondria from the coronapocalypse wasn't bad enough, all amounts of alcohol now considered "deadly"!
—Forget about smoking, now purchase receipts are "deadly"!
—Insurance companies arbitrarily reclassify pot smokers as no risk compared to "deadly" tobacco smokers -- huh?!!
—Laughably, Quebec town bans [outdoor] smoking virtually everywhere, while North Vancouver predictably not worried about looming public pot smoking
—Pollution causing more deaths worldwide than war, smoking, and hunger combined, but the Ontario Wynne'dbag government still calls smoking an 'epidemic' and wants to raise the legal age to 21 and double taxes on tobacco at the same time they legalize pot -- yep, uh huh
—Diesel pollution vastly underestimated, contributes to global deaths
—Diesel exhaust fumes proven health risk for transit riders
—Health Canada buries the fact that it wants public comments about proposed plain packaging regulations
—stress found to be worse than second-hand smoke!
—newspaper opinion piece: In Hitler’s footsteps - censoring smoking at the movies
—Ontario bans smoking on bar and restaurant patios, in or near playgrounds, public sports fields and rinks, and tobacco sales on campus, starting Jan. 1, 2015, by "amending regulations" (to intentionally avoid criticism from their political opposition) calling OUTDOOR second-hand smoke an "extremely toxic substance" during the press conference
—An intelligent editorial column on Waterloo Region's public health department getting too bossy
—Toronto Public Health wants aerosol vaping totally banned, claiming "emerging evidence raises concerns about e-cigarette safety for those exposed to second-hand vapour" yet admits "the published literature studying second-hand vapour is scarce and the evidence regarding health effects remains inconclusive"
—former Ontario provincial health minister "Furious George" Smitherineman wants to be in the medical marijuana business; apparently no contradiction from his anti-smoking nanny-state days under ex-premier Dolton McGuilty
—scientifically validated: smog is "the most important environmental carcinogen, more so than passive smoking" -- yet outdoor smoking bans have become all the rage
—Waterloo Regional Police support going easy on pot smokers while at the same time, tobacco-phobes push for outdoor bans; history is repeating itself
—acclaimed anti-smoking researchers disapprove of outdoor bans
—Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health endorsing "tattle-tale" (their official words) enforcement for proposed outdoor smoking bans: survey!
—Now that smoking is banned indoors, and a vocal minority have twisted nuisance backyard fire smoke into another "health issue", it's open season for ban wish lists, including "neurotoxic fabric-softener and laundry-detergent fumes"!
—Doctors now 'troubled' by rise in lung cancer in never-smokers; hmm, yet the very same day, another news report showed the antis crying for a total ban on tobacco even though it's clearly NOT the sole cause of lung cancer!
—Waterloo Region Record newspaper now assuming all forms of "second-hand" smoke are just as deadly; apparently hookah = tobacco = evil, too
—We told you so last decade: outdoor bans are coming to none other than Bancouver, BC!
—Hyper mega antismoking propaganda has caused otherwise ordinary citizens to forget that nonsmokers get lung cancer, too
—Finally a rabidly "anti" newspaper criticizes Dolton McGuilty's ban-tastic approach
—Deadly laser printer dust "comparable to the particle emissions from cigarette smoking"!--AHAHAHA!!
—"Minister calls for total tobacco ban" -- what can you expect from the newly-created ministry of "health promotion"?
—"Drinking joins smoking as cancer risk"; boozehound antis likely to deny this claim
—Lunacy in Calgary, AB
—headline: "Smoking ban lowers beer sales, drum and bugle corps suffers from lost bingo donations"... "It doesn't make any sense to me!" -- Brian 'Harebrain' Hatton, Waterloo Region's retiring director of environmental health
—City of Kingston makes futiles attempt to ban smoking outdoors; New "Zeal"and considers making it illegal to sell junk food to children --- talk about health hysteria!!
—'Harebrain' Hatton retires!!! Hooray!
—35 year tradition of Miss OktoBEERFARCE pageant scrapped due to annual financial losses since smoking ban introduced!
—Disgusting sign of intolerance: Bar owners may -- nay, will -- get jail time for allowing smoking! (and they're giving up the fight!)
—Charges dismissed; region jumps into action to "fix" 2 year old bylaw!
—Prince Edward Island ponders provincial ban, including the outdoors!
—Antis flip-flop and prove they're greedy control freaks
—Archive of news stories -- read 25 historical clippings from 1993 to 1997 about how the Waterloo Region smoking ban was created!
—Poll by CTV's Canada AM shows overwhelming disagreement with 100% smoking bans!
—The prime-minister isn't/wasn't an "anti"... but Ralph Klein has a drinking problem and no one cares since drinking is "acceptable" compared to tobacco?! (sarcasm)
—Toronto bans smoking, but wants pot decriminalized: "no contradiction"!!!
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— EXCELLENT editorials regarding smoke screens, the health hypocrisy in Canada, the "cradle-to-grave nanny state", extreme zeal, overkill, health hysteria, health fascism, Allan Rockhead's lies, fanatics, "busybody government at its worst", the world's most militant anti-smoking city (and their global ridicule), raving epidemic of anti-tobacco-itis, dopey political histrionics, neo-puritans' enemy #1, banning fun, deadly news, hypocrites at city hall, misleading news, the paternalistic state, ignored etiology, socialist censorship, slippery slopes, and politics vs. science! Also, a single opinion piece, favouring the anti-smoking agenda, that is well written.

Ron's Smoking Ban Pages --- a news & discussion archive, dedicated to the on-going saga of the Waterloo Region ban

FORCES CANADA --- an excellent division of FORCES International

JunkScience.com --- the source for the truth, not biased, meaningless, cry-baby claptrap

Dumblaws.com --- "big government; small brains"

NannyCulture.com --- standing up against the growing fraternity of food cops, health care enforcers, vegetarian activists and meddling bureaucrats who "know what's best for you"

Baneverything.com --- your government's effort to protect you from everything, including yourself

Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco --- propaganda central

Smoking in the Workplace Act --- official Ontario provincial statute

can.talk.smoking --- a newsgroup where hardcore anti-smoking zealots battle it out with average citizens


[archived community forum, hosted by local newspaper, containing thousands of informed opinions]
WARNING: Forum shut-down by Nazi, biased, corrupt newspaper!

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Just a list of some of the "higher-profile" people who were involved in the $100 million lawsuit against the region:
Thirsty's Bar And Grill
12-465 Phillip St., Waterloo, ON N2L 6C7
(519)886-9464

The Station, Saloon
122 Weber St. W, Kitchener, ON N2H 3Z9
(519)742-4294
*Note: Landmark gutted by fire due to car hitting gas meter

Al Cheapolini's Bar And Grill
123 Pioneer Dr., Kitchener, ON N2P 1K8
(519)748-2404

Morty's Pub
244 King St. N, Waterloo, ON N2J 2Y7
(519)886-0440

Coffee Time Donuts
2934 King St. E, Kitchener, ON N2A 1A7
(519)748-2261
(Uptown Waterloo location gone bankrupt - guess why! This location closed July 2015, presumably when their lease expired, replaced by The Grill burger joint. Forest Glen and Frederick Mall locations also closed in 2015)

Frederick Mall Billiards
385 Frederick St., Kitchener, ON N2H 2P2
(519)576-9825

Metropolis Night Club
125 King St. W, Kitchener, ON N2G 1A8
(519)744-4403

Lyric Night Club
122 King St. W, Kitchener, ON N2G 1A6
(519)749-2121
(land expropriated by City of Kitchener in early 2002)

The Flying Dog / Revolution Nightclub
341 Marsland Dr., Waterloo, ON N2J 3Z2
(519)886-7730
(519)886-7777
(land advertised for sale for $8 million in March 2017)

T. J.'s Country Roadhouse (changed to Fork & Cork Grill summer 2015)
1458 Weber St. E, Kitchener, ON N2A 2Y5
(519)894-9880

Club Abstract
667 King St. W, Kitchener, ON N2G 1C9
(519)571-9032
(closed/changed management April 2015)

Jacobey's Restaurant/Bar
13-100 Jamieson Pkwy., Cambridge, ON N3C 4B3
(519)658-2281
(now this unit is www.hespelerpharmacy.com)

Walper Pub
Walper Hotel, King St. W., Kitchener, ON N2G 1A1
(519)745-1123

Casey's Grill House & Beverage Co.
(in Fairview Park Mall)
2960 Kingsway Dr., Kitchener, ON N2C 1X1
(519)894-4460
(gone bankrupt? now a Jack Astor's)


Edelweiss Sports Bar And Grill
600 Doon Village Rd., Kitchener, ON N2P 1G6
(519)748-0221



... and here's a few of the "outspoken" activists who (at least to my knowledge) are not currently involved in any lawsuits:
Manhattan Pizza
951 Gordon St., Guelph, ON N1G 4S1
(519)767-2440

Phil's Diner
281 Woodlawn Rd. W, Guelph, ON N1H 7K7
(519)767-0076

Jack Wizer's Tap & Eatery
(since gone bankrupt and charged $1000)
440 Hespeler Rd., Cambridge, ON


... and these are the first places to be charged $5000:
Lancaster House Tavern
574 Lancaster St. W, Kitchener, ON N2K 1M3
(519)743-4331

Marni's Pub & Eatery
373 Bridge W, Waterloo, ON N2K 3K3
(519)725-4611

Fifty-Fifty Bar
3 King St. E., St. Clements

The Mayfair Hotel
11 Young St., Kitchener, ON N2H 4Y7
(519)744-2203
*Note: No longer in business; land temporarily owned by city hall, then deteriorated after sold to developer and ultimately demolished in 2015


... and some charges pending in Guelph:
R U Serious Restaurant
131 Silvercreek Pkwy N, Guelph, ON N1H 3T2
(519)766-0230

The Elks Den
728 York Rd, Guelph, ON N1E 6A5
(519)763-7830

Squirrel Tooth Alice's
649 Scottsdale Dr, Guelph, ON N1G 4S6
(519)824-8412

Coffee Stop Café
485 Speedvale E, Guelph, ON N1E 6J2
(519)836-6840

Delainey's Casual Dining Inc.
930 Woodlawn W, Guelph, ON N1K 1T2
(519)822-0070

Cactus Jack's Restaurant
777 Woolwich, Guelph, ON N1H 3Z2
(519)837-1070

** MORE CHARGES HERE **


(please support them in their efforts to bring some sense to regional council!)

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"Zero tolerance has become infinitely ridiculous; most zero tolerance policies display zero common sense, zero benefits, and zero effectiveness."

Here's a typical example of anti-smoking hypocrisy in action!
(it's only missing a cell phone and a Bawb nametag!)

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