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A new epidemic in the West End
The new epidemic in the West End is not all the drunks and screaming girls on English Bay Beach at night after the park is closed at 10pm (and why does the Park Board allows this – see Grant Lawrence’s excellent article in the June 30th edition).
No, it is not all the street garbage all over the place, especially around the new bus benches. No, it is not the fighting and the drinking. No, it is not all the unsafe bicyclers going through stop signs and red lights. No, it is not all the dogs on the beaches spreading E. coli and ignoring all the “No dogs” signs. And,Ěýno, it is not the people setting up temporary shelters living on the beaches.
The new epidemic in the West End is cigarette butts. They are everywhere. Cigarette butts include chemicals such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen oxides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, ammonia, acetaldehyde, formaldehyde, benzene, phenol, argon, pyridines and acetone, over 50 of which are known to be carcinogenic to humans.
Cigarette butts can leach chemicals such as cadmium, lead and arsenic into our environment within an hour of contact with water. But then, it hardly rains in Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»so not big deal, right?
A prime example is the park at the corner of Cardero and Burnaby, which has become the neighbourhood’s ashtray (not to mention the garbage thrown all over the place by the people that sit on the benches).
Solution: put your butts into your cigarette package after smoking and throw your butts away in a garbage bin. I know people who do this and good for them – but that would be less than one per cent of smokers.
–Anti-Butt Head
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Can’t have it both ways
Re: “I’ve, like, really had it with Molson. Here’s why.” The Growler, July 7, 2016.
So, you're OK with the big breweries spending tens of thousands in sponsorship money to make these festivals possible, but you fly into a huff when the sponsor actually tries to do something with that sponsorship? Talk about entitled.
I'm no fan of big beer, but having been on the event side of things, sponsorship contributions from big companies are essential to the making festivals possible. Pity you didn't notice that when you were stomping your feet and throwing a fit.
–Citizen Five
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