Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1158141733915&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154" target="_blank">http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/ cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1158141733915&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154</a> >>Pressure is building on Ontario's anti-smoking police to give Hollywood star Sean Penn a ticket after he was pictured lighting up at a news conference. "He should be charged," Health Promotion Minister Jim Watson said today at his own news conference to herald the first 100 days of the province's tough new anti-smoking law. Almost 500 tickets have been issued to smokers and establishments but, so far, not to Penn or the hotel where he appeared during a news conference to promote his new movie, All The King's Men, at the Toronto International Film Festival. Critics said it will appear the new Smoke-Free Ontario Act, which outlaws smoking in indoor public spaces, doesn't apply to the rich and famous unless something is done. "It was such a flagrant breach of the law," said Michael Perly, executive director of the Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco. "It absolutely should be a target."<<
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Of course he should be fined. You've gotta be totally spineless if you can't even enforce your own anti-smoking laws. BTW, must have been a slow news day. What a waste of print.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal Wasn't there a story recently about Keith Richards lighting up at a concert somewhere where smoking is prohibited? I thought it was him, maybe it was someone else. Either way, whoever it was wasn't fined...
Originally Posted By alexbook Ron White makes a point of lighting up and drinking onstage, especially in places where smoking is banned and they don't have liquor licenses.
Originally Posted By debtee Fined not fined, Sean Penn won't care. If he flaunted the rules so publicly he doesn't care about the punishment! Rules should apply to everyone no matter of celebrity status, as Mel Gibson found out recently!
Originally Posted By DlandDug Was the smoking absolutely integral to the performance? That's what I want to know.
Originally Posted By jdub Who is Ron White? For a second, I thought it was that "Barney Miller" guy, but I believe that was Ron Glass.
Originally Posted By DAR He's the Tater Salad dude from the Blue Comedy Collar Tour. He's pretty funny, I always liked Foxworthy, Bill Engvall is funny too, not so crazy about Larry the Cable Guy and his played out "Git R Done" schtick.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut dont their laws require a copy to be in the presence of the act? So a photo is nothing more. If a cop was there, than sure ticket him, but otherwise, eh, not worth the time.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I always liked Foxworthy, Bill Engvall is funny too, not so crazy about Larry the Cable Guy and his played out "Git R Done" schtick< I can always say I knew Jeff Foxworthy back when ( at least over the phone). For those who don't know Jeff's father was a high level IBM Executive and Jeff worked in corporate America in Altanta for about 4-5 years or so before he decided that life was not for him. He made the right decision.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Jeff Foxworthy is a pretty cool guy. I sat at the bar and talked to him in Sia's restaurant in Duluth one night last fall while waiting for some business associates.
