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Last year, The Canadian Cancer Society and Toronto Public Health teamed up to bring you the Driven To Quit<\/a> challenge which encouraged people to quit smoking in order to be entered into a contest to win a car. The great community group Streets Are For People (which brings us Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington) called out<\/a> the charity group and public health department for the ultimate example of hypocrisy: quit smoking so you can pollute the air we breathe. Nice. Check out the video on their counter-campaign<\/a> from March 2007.<\/p>\n

It looks like Streets Are For People’s message didn’t really get through. Public Health and CCS are offering up the contest again in 2008 with a chance to win a Honda Prius Hybrid. The only consolation this year is one winner will be selected for a yearly Metropass. It would make more sense to see 30 yearly Metropasses given out as prizes (the equivalent of the Prius’s value) instead of a car.<\/p>\n

This is an odd contest for Public Health to be involved with since they were the agency that released a report in Novmeber 2007<\/a>, that states Toronto needs to reduce car emissions by over 30% a year.<\/p>\n

photo by Scott Snider <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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