Majority of Canadians Are Making Their Homes and Cars Smoke-free Survey Results Released by Canadian Cancer Society

TORONTO, Jan. 12 /CNW/ - When asked if anyone has smoked in their homes in the past week, almost four out of five (78 per cent) Canadians reported that their homes had been smoke-free.

This included 48 per cent of homes with one or more smokers and 94 per cent of homes without smokers.

These results come from a new national survey released today by the Canadian Cancer Society on the eve of National Non-Smoking Week (January 15 to 21). The survey also found that the majority of Canadians don't allow smoking in their vehicles.

Seventy per cent of Canadians who have one vehicle say they never allow smoking in the vehicle.

This includes 37 per cent among households with one or more smokers and 90 per cent among households with no smokers.

"It's heartening to see that Canadians, both smokers and non-smokers, are increasingly taking steps to protect others from tobacco smoke," says Cheryl Moyer, Director, Cancer Control Programs, Canadian Cancer Society.

"Second-hand smoke is a serious health risk. It contains the same 4,000 chemicals as smoke that is directly inhaled, including approximately 50 cancer-causing chemicals. Health Canada estimates that second-hand smoke is responsible for 1,000 tobacco-related deaths annually, including 300 from lung
cancer."

 Corporate Canada Keeps Lid On "Glass Ceiling"

Only 4.6 Per Cent of Top Executive Officers Are Women, Search Firm Finds

TORONTO, Jan. 18 /CNW/ - Fewer than 5 per cent of the top-paid executive officers in Canada's largest publicly-traded companies are women, according to leading executive search firm Rosenzweig & Company.

"We've heard a lot of talk over the past decade or so about women breaking through the glass ceiling," says Jay Rosenzweig, Managing Partner of Rosenzweig & Company. "But clearly these numbers speak volumes as to how much action - or inaction - has occurred in filling the highest executive positions with women. There remains great hesitancy to give women the keys to the Top 5
executive officer jobs."

Women represent more than half the Canadian population and 46.6 per cent of the workforce.

Ride like hell

                                        

Got a bike that needs a haul or a change of attitude for a new lease of life? Rahul Alvares finds just the right man in Calangute who does it right.

He has ripped the rusty 350 cc Enfield down to nuts, bolts and bones. Every system - digestive, circulatory, nervous and excretory - has been separated and placed neatly in greasy bags in a corner of his garage. Now all that's left is the thick chassis of the bike and the headlight holder which, devoid of its bulb, is staring at me like the hollow eyes of a skeleton. The man whistling nonchalantly as he tussles with the heavy engine of the motorbike is Doctor Joe; the most famous Bullet mechanic in Goa.