Has anyone seen the new show ‘Madmen’? It airs on Sunday nights and is about an advertising agency , set in the 1960’s.
What jumps out at me when I watch it is the smoking. The actors seem to constantly have a cigarette going, even the women have one going while they are cooking.
Times really have changed. For Coronation the start of that change might have started with this.
February 10, 1987
“No smoking resolution passed by council
“Mayor Jack Noonan wasn’t sure if council members were joking, or serious as a no-smoking motion was introduced at the Coronation Town Council meeting on February 3.
“Mayor Noonan , the only member of Town Council to smoke besides Administrator Ken Hollinger, asked council to consider the matter until another meeting.
“Council however, were willing to rescind the motion providing a fan and air vent were installed in council chambers.
“Council members were quick to point out the cost f the fan would have to be picked up by the Mayor, not the tax payers.
“The final vote on the issue was five councillors in favor of the motion and one against. Mayor Noonan asked to have his no-vote recorded.
“In a later interview Administrator Ken Hollinger said it wouldn’t bother him to forego smoking during council meetings, providing council didn’t carry the no-smoking thing too far by banning smoking during office hours or similar measures.
“Assistant Administrator LaReata Workman disagreed.
“If council can have smoke free air for three hours, twice a month at council meetings, I feel it only fair that I be allowed the same smoke free air every day while I’m at work.
“Staff member Debbie Thomson thought it would be carrying things too far to prohibit her, or anyone else, from having a cigarette during work hours.”
That seems to be when this ‘great debate’ came to our town, and we all know which side is winning.

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