Tobacco Bylaw No. 47

BY-LAW NO. 47

 

A By-Law respecting the use of Tobacco by minors

View the original Bylaw No. 47: Tobacco Bylaw

 

TIME FOR ACTION: Tobacco Trouble in Magrath

Good Manners or Good Tobacco?

Tobacco Trouble in Magrath

Old Fashioned Shoe

 
Chewing tobacco caused issues on two different occasions.  While Miss ______ was selling quilt raffle tickets as a fund raiser for the new library, _______ casually spat his wad of chewing tobacco too close to the quilt. 

 
His tobacco juice stained the quilt and the stains could not be removed.  Meanwhile in another part of town, Mrs. _____ was sporting her brand new patent leather shoes.  She met up with ______ who also spat his tobacco onto the boardwalk and splashed onto her new shoes. 

 

 

Bylaws require people to behave in different ways (like not spitting in public, or not playing pool after 6 pm on a weeknight, and the curfew bylaw.) And, what might have been going on to make the town pass a bylaw about spitting? Didn't people just know that you shouldn't spit on each other?

 

Did you know.

Health Canada looks at the Tobacco Bylaw Across Alberta: Cardston achieved a GOLD level in 2002. "Smoking prohibited in all public places, including restaurants, bars, billiard halls, bingo halls, bowling alleys." http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/tobac-tabac/about-apropos/role/municip/ab-eng.php

 

Spitting Out Doors

 

Spitting in Magrath

A time when people spat on the ground and then people had a problem with it getting everywhere and who was going to clean it up. So a woman called Wanda Gibbons decided to put a stop to it with making a bylaw.

This is a fun story about a cowboy who spits on a lovely quilt that Wanda made to help raise money for the library. They get in a fight and Wanda takes it to town counsel and Bill rides off to go herd cattle.

 student actors

 

Cowboy Bill

...played by Adam

Wanda Gibbons

... played by Kolbee

Mary

... played by Elizabeth

Spitting, Swearing, Smoking

 

This radio play is a very exciting thriller about a man who always chews tobacco. One day a nice lady named Mrs. Mikey was walking down the street. All of the sudden some thing happened that will change her footwear forever. Listen to Swearing spitting and smoking.

 student actors

Mrs. Mikey, Store Lady, Lebron

played by Sarah Sabey

Mr. Mikey, Deron

played by Tate Stringam 

Officer Poleouski, Mr. Shirt
played by Dallas Hougnton 

 

 

Students' Podcast

Students drew from the primary resources of the bylaw website to help them understand the history of their town. Working in groups students examined these historical bylaws.  Questions they used to guide them were:

Have laws and bylaws changed over time?
How have they affected the people involved?
What evidence is there that old bylaws still exist today?
What story do they have to tell?
How have these bylaws impacted the people in our community?