Page 22, Whitby Free Press, Wednesday, March 2,1994 TOMA CCO UEPREVENTION Coalition speaks -ont The Durham Region Tobacco Use Prevention Coalition on Feb. 15 "poe to the Standing Commite on Social Develop- ment of the. Ontario legisiature, vocing support and recommenda- tions for Bill 119 -- the Ontario Tobacco Control Act. The act includes measures such as raising the lega] age of sale of cigarettes to 19, banning cigarette vending machines and banning the sale of tobacco in pharmacies. It also includes the ability te place stronger health warnings on cigarette packages and regulate smoking in some public places in the province. Along with supporting these measures, the coalition suggested soin. ways te beef Up the bill, including makcing plain packages for cigarettes mandatory, banning 'kiddie' packs (cigarettes packaged in fives and tens), lcensing tobacco retailers and prohibitin g smoking in ail public paces andI workplaces unless it je in afly enclosed, separately ventilated room. It is vital to try te prevent youth from starting te smoke until they are age 19 because very few people start smoking as adults," sttes Sandra Schmidt, coalition chair. "When they become addicted te nicotine at an early age, it is very difficult te quit and, very often, serious, even deadly health conditions can result. This is a severe and unfortunate puni shent for an incorrect decision made whe» they were on!y prhapis age il or 12. e need te, be sendine ap ropriate messages to youth,' hecontinues. "For example, no other deadly substance is uold in a vending machine. Why should cigarettes?" "Elirinating tobacco sales from pharmacies clearly demonstrates that tobacco is in no way synonymous with health. lIn fact, several pharmacies in the. region have removed tobacco from their sheives voluntarily." The coalition is made up cf agencies and organizations workIng together te address the. youth and tobacco issue. IIF YQU HAD< RECEl VED THIS AD IN YOUR MILBOX YO..U WOULD HAVE THROWN 75% 0 F IT AWAY. That's a siily way of stating what is a documented fact. 75% of al advertising mail meets a sad end. In the trash can! 0f the 25% that we keep, most we don't even read at that time. We- set it aside, to corne back to. Or to forget about completely. Three times as many people would prefer to receive their price and cost information in their newspaper. There, it's ail together in one neat package. Complete and ready for comparison. When people turn to their paper, they turn there with interest. Which means that's where your advertising message needs to be. With ail the choices available, it's difficuit deciding how best to ad- vertise your business. But everything becomes a littie simpler when you remnember one rule... 1Crime Stoppers and the Durham Redional Police sexual assault unit are askring for the public s help in selving a sexual assault that occurred in Oshawa on Sunday, May 30, 1993. At about 12:40 a m. the victim was walkring eastbound on the north sidewalk of Ëruce Street approahin Drew Street when she realized somneone was followirgher.Weh quickened her pae only to have the suspeoct do the sanie. eWen eh.e got to Drew, t he suspect came up behind her and put bis right hand over hier mnoutb and hie left arm around her waist and pushed hier to the ground. The victim struggled, causing the suspect te say, "C'ron, make it easier on yourself." The victimi was al1eto stand Up. The suspect pulled at her top and jacket but couldn't get tbem off. The victini started to screazn and was, told by the suspect to shut up. 5h. was theri pushed back on the ground. The suspect tnied to remove the victim's clothing aan but, at this time, an unknown motorist drovo by and Maa U-turn, shini' the headlights at the crime scene. The susp>ect jump up and ran north behind two bouses. The victim ran to te car and was driven to a friend's house. The Good Samaritan was described as an Oriental male in hie forties. The sus.pect is described as male, white, late twenties/ early thirties, ive foot eighit inches to five foot ten inches, with a medium build. Xe had medium-brown, shouldor- length, bushy,- wavy hair, reddish brown eyes and a medium- thicness, brown moustache. He wore a brown, vinyl, bomber-style jacket with a band around the bottem di k coioured blue jeans and dark blue running shoes. A re-enactment of the crime will be shown on CITY-TV (channel 57, cable 7) on Thursday, Feb. 24 during the 6 and 10 p.m. news. It will also b. shown on OKYR in -Brre and CHEX-TV in Peterborough on Friday, Feb. 25, again during the news. Crime Stoppera will pay uxp to $1,000 for information on this or any other serious crime. Cail 436-8477 (thates 436- TIPS). As a caller you* will flot have to identifyr yourself or have te go to court. A code number will be issued to you te proteet your identity. Polie would aIse 11k. te talk to -the driver of the. vehicle who asssted the victini. Sergeant Grant Arnold is the co-ordinator witb the Durhamn Regional Crime Stoppers prograni and wnites this article te help combat crime. * wIw. Thanks to yen, the recycling (if ncwspapers in Ontario lias rcachced an astonîshing 75% recovery rate anI1ung hiotsehiolds with Bitie Box service. I Iow iicli ist uaL? Quite simply, more than a quarter of a million tonnes if inewspaýpers wcre kept out (il garbage dunmps in 1992, whicli alrcady exceedls the provincial anid national targets set for the ycar 2000. These old newspapcrs wvould fi 35,000 ga rhage trucks, a bumnper-ro-humiiper cofvoy t ha t would stretch froni Toronto tw K ingstoin. Most iimpoxrtandty, newspiaper recycling reduces landfill dumpîng costs and our need for new and expandcd dump sites. Rccycling incwsp.apcrs and flyer inserts is a real Ontario success story. Congratulations for your part. The Newspa-.per Publishers of Ontario