Satire, apparently, but just barely:
Ontario has always taken a hard line when it comes to its provincial anti-smoking laws and MPP John Abbot says it is time to take this hard line even further. Mr. Abbot wants the province to create the country’s first “smokers registry.”
It would be a publicly accessed list that would require anyone who smokes to “let the provincial government know where they plan on taking a puff.”
“This will be useful for both smokers and non-smokers,” says Abbot, “The time has come for us to know where smokers live, work and, most importantly, smoke, so the non-smoking public can make decisions based on this information.”
