Lawmakers constantly come up with proposals to open up debate, and to discuss the pros and cons of putting policies into law: Some proposals make sense, some don’t.
Here’s one that makes sense: BC legislators are proposing to slow down vehicles on residential streets by changing the speed limit from the current 50 km/h to 30 km/h.
For safety’s sake, most drivers are already doing 30 km/h anyway. Space can be really tight in the narrow residential streets, especially when two vehicles are going in opposite directions. And everyone knows about the rule of the rolling ball: When one sees a ball rolling across the street, a running child will likely be coming after.
Yet here’s a proposal that doesn’t make much sense: The proposal requiring a warning not just on the package, but on each individual cigarette. I doubt this policy would make much of a difference. Smokers know full well what they are getting themselves into when they light and puff a cigarette. I don’t think people would be so enlightened by a warning on a cigarette that they’d quit smoking!
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