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SMOKING BAN COMMENTS * Canada - "Work vehicles to be workplaces"
Reader's Letters -Edmonton,Alberta,Canada -The Edmonton Journal -15 Jan 2008: --
* Shane Morosse, Edmonton: What happened to freedom?
I had just come back from the United States. I drive truck long haul. Much to my surprise, the first thing I read about is the government and law enforcement telling me that I can't smoke in a workplace; that my truck is a workplace... It is my home while I am on the road. No one has the legal right to invade anyone's home, whether it be mobile or fixed, and tell someone how to live their life... What if I have a home based business? Will the government stick their nose in and invade my privacy? Will it bring forth a law which entitles it to invade my home and my place of business? Enter my home and fine me for smoking in my own home? This is without a doubt, a misappropration of authority... I was under the impression that we live in a free country. Free from oppression. Free to protect our homes and rights...
* D.A. Taylor, Edmonton: Seems like a little confusion, Mack.
I understand that truck drivers get to claim food and daily living expenses on their long trips as deductions from their income because they are away from their home and on the job... With the unpopularity of a health and safety regulation of no smoking in the workplace, it seems there is a reverse claim that truck cabs and sleepers are, in fact, not workplaces, but private homes, and no one can say what they do in their own homes...
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