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TORONTO — An eastern Ontario news-
paper may have broken new ground by
imposing a full ban on smoking anywhere
in its building.

The Brockville Recorder and Times also
extended the ban to its pages and will no
longer accept tobacco advertising, a move
_that is estimated to cost $15,000 a year in
lost revenue.

(But the net loss may be partially off-
set by the potential savings in fire insur-
ance and any employee life and sickness
insurance paid by the company.)

Garfield Mahood, head of the Toronto-
based Non-Smokers’ Rights. Association,
said he believes the newspaper is the first:
employer in Canada to enact a full ban on

“Banning

smoking anywhere on its premises.

The newspaper's decision was greeted.
with glee by the anti-smoking lobby, and
by cheers in the newsroom.

But .the Brockville ban, which follows
an earlier move by the Kingston Whig-
Standard to refuse tobacco advertising
and restrict smoking in its building, is
unlikely to start a trend in the industry,

in the workplace

smoking

- says-John Foy, the president of the Cana-

dian Daily Newspapers Publishers’ Asso-
ciation.

Nevertheless, in Vieouvch other
industries have begun to respond to sug-
gestions they should or may be forced to
ban smoking in their workplaces.

An April 24 seminar, organized by the
B.C. Lung Association for 60 local com-

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Wednesday, April 17, 1985

pany managers, had to be expanded when
100 applications were received. On the
speakers list are two Vancouver lawyers
who have researched the issue.

The lawyers, Joan McEwen and Allen
Soltan, said that rights of non-smokers to
breathe smoke-free air in the workplace
would be upheld by Canadian courts, and
employers may be obligated to control

‘smoking.,

They also said the right to smoke at will
in the workplace probably would not be
supported by the Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms Section 15.

The section prohibits discrimination on
the basis of age, sex, race, national or eth-
nic origin, color, religion or mental or
physical disability.

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