Canadian Trucker Fined for Smoking in a Workplace: His Own Truck

While we recently discussed criticism of the evolving “nanny state” in England, it appears that Canada may also have a degree of runaway paternalistic regulations. Truck driver Brad Weber, 44, was fined recently for smoking in his workplace. Of course, his workplace is the cab of his truck, which he owns and operates alone.

Nevertheless, bureaucrats in Canada defined the truck as a covered workplace and fined him for smoking while driving.

He was noticed with a cigarette in his lips when he passed a police officer.

The Smoke-Free Ontario Act states that “no person shall smoke tobacco or hold lighted tobacco in any enclosed public place or enclosed workplace.”

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