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WEDNESDAY, July 6, 1994

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16

The First

whole

SMOKE

‘No I don’t buy cigarettes
myself ... | have to get people
to buy for me.’

ment's latest folly.

New provinci gislation aimed at p i
the health of young people was put in place as
July 1, making it illegal for anyone under 19 to pur-
chase tobacco products. The previous limit was set
at 18.

But local shop owners say the increase will do
nothing’ to stop young people from becoming
addicted to cigarettes.

“They'll just keep doing what they've always
been doing—finding someone else to buy it for
them,” said Maria Machado of Machado’s Grocery
in downtown Castlegar.

Machado says she, like other business owners, is
vigilant when it comes to requesting I.D.. “It
doesn’t go over well, but I explain to them that I
would be fined. It still doesn't go over well.”

She says that more than once young people have
tried to trick her into selling them tobacco prod-
ucts, and Machado says she would like to see

responsibility placed on parents and the
kids themselves. “It all seems to fall on the busi-
ness owner.”

Chad Brown, an employee
said raising the limit from 16 to 18 did little to stop
young people from smoking. He doesn't expect one

purchasing
“Look, it’s illegal for young people to drink, yet
Jook at how many young people have used alcohol.”

— CHRIS
14-year-old smoker

at Downtown Shell, |

A new study commissioned by the BC Lung
Association has stated that 26 per cent of youth sur-
veyed between grades five and seven admitted try-
ing tobacco. The figures, states the Lung
Association, are up from 15 per cent, when the
same age group was surveyed in 1991.

Local kids say even if the limit was raised to 30,
someone out there would still p @ pack

don’t want to.”

There are a lot of young people like Chris, who
have little else to spend their moncy on, and are
basically bored. At least that’s what one new
Castlegar business owner believes. Nancy Trotman,
from Artistic Aromas gourmet coffee shop, says the
kids who were coming in and sitting down for

hours at a time had no place else to

out.
“They really need something to keep them
busy—tike a place to skateboard.”
Her sympathy for local kids only went so far

give me cigarettes, but not
day I'll quit, but for now I

when i at the small shop was

’~ getting to suffer as'a result of too many kids and

too mich smoke. The answer? Nancy placed a sign
on the wall that no one under the age of 18 would
be allowed to smoke on the premises.

when it came out. We'll probably raise the limit to
19 now that the government has changed it.“

The new legislation. ..

© forbids the sale of tobacco to
persons under age 19;

e bans the sale of packages of
fewer than 20 cigarettes, known
as ‘kiddy-packs’;

requires vendors to display a
health warning sign and signs
saying, “It is illegal to sell tobac-
co to anyone under 19 years of
age. Photo ID may be required’;

¢ forbids the sale of. single
cigarettes.

Packages for retailers, containing
the information, are being distribut-
ed this month.

The Second

Another color

Province etches out long-term
funding for | T
Kootenay School of the Arts

is good— it

heritage,
ready for a bid to do the
uary, 1995.

(BCIAD), KSA will SOOT
credits for a Bachelor of

The funding was d as part of the pr governillelits
011 Post-Secondary Education and Training. It was one of a series announced in the Kootenay region
as part of the government's $200 million Skills Now program.

Creston

response to The Fulton Report

will receive a one-year
College

: Quick Respomse
‘Trainillg provides part-time training to

neodilig ng, and a
Ovtreacil Programme will provide longer term options for retraining and education to meet regional

on the palette?

Recapping 7
a successful year

Centre, Kootenay
evening, June 24. A
tion Centre’s Opening

selection of sweets, cof-
dit wool, p Lait

lors.
sponse,” says Director of KSA,
“We are lucky to draw these

teachers ,
Moet of KSA instructors make a living from the field that they teach. As working artists they teach
ical skills. F ing KSA they stress studio methods to provide hands-on instruction

artists and

ge to work as i

be enough, however, for those who wish to

Many instructors, ast students, and other people supporting
and celebrate the revival of the Kootenay School of the Arts and the work produced by its instructors.

—KSA stories by Seanagh Sloan