Establishments failing to post 'No Smoking' signs will be fined – Hon Skelton
The Minister was speaking last evening January 28, 2016 during the debate on the Higher Education Licencing Act during the Sixth Sitting of the First Session of the Third House of Assembly.
“Madam Speaker we have passed laws in this country that are not being adhered to and are not being enforced. Madam Speaker I go into restaurants and hotels. We have passed anti smoking legislation and I see people smoking and nobody saying anything,” he said.
“This has to stop Madam Speaker. When we pass laws they must be enforced.”
He lamented that such establishments must post no smoking signs.
“We have to fine them under the law. I am in the process of sending out some new advertisements and I am threatening them that they will be fined because second hand smoke is killing people. It’s a known fact,” he said.
This news site has observed on many occasions that even though persons are not allowed to smoke on the premises, they can legally stand outside of the establishment within feet of other patrons sitting in the premises and smoke. In those instances, the non-smokers are just as affected by the second hand smoke as if they were standing or sitting right next to the smoker.
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33 Responses to “Establishments failing to post 'No Smoking' signs will be fined – Hon Skelton ”
something worthwhile to do. My Lord.
Places around the world have smoking laws and also have designated areas that allow smoking with certain restrictions. If you don't like smoke you don't go into a smoke shop. Where does the smoke from your car muffler/exhaust go?
So it's okay for raw sewage to kill people. It's okay for supermarkets to market wholesale processed poison to our kids and other masses, it's okay for the rum companies to have a field day selling liquor and for our restaurants and other food places to sell plates of grease. This is causing a run on our dialysis unit at the Hospital, not smoking. Get with the program and address the issues that are killing off our people. We are losing people in their young age from Cancer and it's not cancer caused by smoking, so why aren't we trying to figure it out? Ironically most of the people we have lost especially recently to cancer never smoked and hardly drank any rum in their lives but they suffered and are gone. I think we should be looking at that instead. It's always said the BVI love to be in things and this is just another example. Let's do something because it looks good and feels good even though it makes no sense and has little or no impact on our lives. You can't smoke unless it's 50ft away. Does that make sense? Come on people. I agree someone shouldn't be able to light up at a restaurant or certain places but there are so many serious issues affecting our health here. He should champion the extremely bad air quality in the admin complex if he is really concerned about health. That mold in there is doing more damage than any 2nd hand smoke. the incinerator is also under Health and they kill the North Side with smoke and toxins. Come on Ronnie cut the sh*t out.
Tint on windows?
Scooters? Helmets? Traffic Regs.
Litter?
Corruption?
All we get from Government now is threats and more threats. Parking, NHI and now smoking sighns. Next they will be threatening to build an airport we cannot afford and finish us all off.
REALLY RONNIE? The man who used to be in immigration was enforcing the immigration laws and ALL of you had problems with that. Stop the grandstanding on law enforcement.