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LETTER: Time to ban smoking on terraces 

Quebec, in its infinite stupidity, chose not to ban smoking for outdoor eating venues, the "scientific" reason being that smoke would flow upwards, or somehow away from non-smokers, with no ill effect on them or on wait staff.

Anyone who has eaten outdoors at home, using the BBQ, knows that the slightest breeze will shift the smoke in all directions. The recent court case restricting a tenant from smoking indoors might spur the government to annul that part of the law permitting smoking on restaurant terraces.

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