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Dunkley pushes for smoke ban law 

Despite overwhelming protest in the House of Assembly on Friday night, the Shadow Minister of Health presented a “draft legislation” to prohibit smoking in public places and the sale of tobacco to people under the age of 18. In his motion, Michael Dunkley told the House that smoking and second hand smoke is the number one killer in Bermuda. “Smoking is the major cause of respiratory disease, heart disease, stroke, vascular disease and cancers of the lung, oral cavity, urinary tract and cervix,” he said. . . .

Mr. Dunkley said the Government was continually accusing the Opposition of being political. “Well there are two points I would like to make in connection with that. The first being, yes we are being political after all this is politics and second, being political we do so because we have very little confidence in the ability of this Government in getting things done as their record has shown a pattern of not getting things done! “This being the case we have no confidence in the ability of the PLP to bring encompassing legislation to make the needed changes in the near future,” he said. Mr. Dunkley then presented the draft legislation, adding that he heard murmurs that the drafting chambers were overworked and short staffed.

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