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which is owned by a tobacco manufacturer) have loudly disagreed about the sale of cigarettes in drugâ€" stores. There is disagreement because pharmacists know very well what becomes of those people who frequent the front of their stores to buy cartons of smokes â€" they return, years later, to the back of the pharmacy for medicine to treat their cancer or other diseases. The owners of the stores, however, never see past the blur of the cash register drawer. And as long as the money rolls in, the blatant hypocrisy of a business fid&dmmalonmdenmodydm‘tdimxrb a bit. The NDP has banned cigarette vending machines as well â€" another great idea because they represent the easiest way for minors to get their hands on a pack (besides negligent parents and deathâ€"dealing soâ€" called friends). Furthermore, any retailer convicted twice of selling cigarettes to minors will lose the right to sell them at allâ€" a strong deterrent. For years, Ontario‘s college of pharmacists and its Would you expect your psychiatrist to try to drive you mad? Your nutritionist to recommend a back bacon breakfast? Your pharmacist to sell you toxic chemicals for your consumption® So why should the owners of Ontaric‘s pharmacies expect their pharmacists â€" health workers â€" to merâ€" rily sell deadly tobacco products to Ontaric‘s nicotine Well, the NDP government has put a stop to that, and I, for one, hope it is the start of a worldwide Today our pharmacies, tomorrow the world Cambridge. The best way to ensure that our groundâ€" mhmfim“pdhlfimhwmfiminpubfic enough to meet even the growth projections in the consultant‘s report. This water could be accessed at a cost of about $60 million with little or no damage to the environmen‘ Estimates for the pipeline go as high $428 million. That‘s too high a price to pay for growth that many people don‘t even want. The main objection that is raised to continuing to rely on groundwater is the threat of contamination. Critics point to Uniroyal Chemical‘s poisoning of the groundwater around Elmira and to CIBAâ€"GEIGY and f_)an_ldjgn General Tower‘s pollution problems in rently available water supply? I think so. Currently, 90 per cent of Waterloo Region‘s water supply comes from groundwater (the rest comes from the Grand River, by way of the Mannheim water purification station). The good news is that there is plenty more high quality water under the ground â€" Wait a minute. Do you remember being asked what level of growth you wanted in the region? The study and many of the political proponents of the pipeline start from an assumption that growth is good â€" and more growth is even better. Would it not make more sense to seek a water option that forces us to live with moderate growth that can be sustained by our curâ€" Every five to 10 years or so someone comes to the conclusion that Waterloo Region rieeds a pipeline to the Great Lakes in order to provide us with a secure source of drinking water. In the past, reason has preâ€" vailed and the idea has been rejected. Let‘s hope that it is again. According to a recent engineering study, we "need" a Great Lakes pipeline in order to provide us with an extra 10 million gallons of water a day by the year by 2041 and finally solve our water problems. The engiâ€" neer who led the study also concluded that "the pipeline would encourage regional growth". Wait a minute. Do you remember being s Water pipeline is not necessary "Oh sure," people will say, "but then the kids will just get their older friends to buy them." Well, I was a kid not so long ago, and I don‘t rememâ€" ber too many preteens (when most smokers begin lighting up) hanging around with 19 year olds, includâ€" Their may be no hypocrisy involved when variety and grocery store employees sell cigarettes, but I, for one, would surely find my conscience getting in the way of my work. What we need, eventually, is to replace the open sale of tobacco products with closely controlled and monitored sales in â€" you guessed it â€" pharmacies. I know from the experiences of loved ones how nicoâ€" tine is a tough addiction to beat, but we must start showing it some respect by setting up a system under which doctors and pharmacists will help nicotine addicts the way they help heroin addicts with smoke lining up at the back of the pharmacy now, rather than later, when the damage will have been A Great Lakes water pipeline is neither necessary nor affordable. We have all the water we need under our feet â€"â€" if we take care of it and if we limit growth to pressure on industry. That won‘t happen if the public has no ongoing stake in the safety of groundwater. It strikes me that the arguments in favor of buildâ€" ing a pipeline are a lot like those that promote sendâ€" ing Toronto‘s garbage to northern Ontario. Both scenarios take a local problem and deal with it by avoiding it. Toronto won‘t be forced to limit its producâ€" ion of waste if they are given the instant solution of trucking it out of the area. As we have seen recently, no one in the Toronto area wants anything to do with it. Similarly, we in Waterloo Region will have little incentive to stop industrial pollution of groundwater if we have a pipeline on which to rely, The other factor that is being ignored in this debate is conservation. Waterloo Region has already distrib uted water saving devices to many households, but there is much moge that could be done. 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