Barbara McLintock<\/b> is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. In 2004 she was given the Victoria YM-YWCA’s Woman of Distinction Award for Communication.<\/p>\n
She spent more than 20 years as reporter, columnist and Victoria Bureau Chief for The Province newspaper, where she won the Canadian Association of Journalists’ national award for best investigative newspaper reporting for 1996.<\/p>\n
Her first book, Anorexia’s Fallen Angel<\/i>, was named runner-up for the VanCity Book Prize.<\/p>\n
Barbara<\/b> was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba and has resided in Victoria, B.C. for the past 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Award-winning journalist and author Barbara McLintock<\/b> uses the example of B.C.’s capital city, Victoria, as a case study to show how a region can not only pass legislation, but implement it and enforce it with such effectiveness that the compliance rate now exceeds 99 per cent. The story is a dramatic narrative in its own right, replete with details of harrowing public meetings, widespread early defiance of the law in drinking establishments, an often-hostile media climate and even death threats to those responsible for implementation and enforcement. But it also shows the benefits of enacting such a law, not just through improved air quality for patrons and workers but also how such a bylaw results in a reduced smoking rate in the population and growing popularity for the measure, even amongst smokers.<\/p>\n
This book is a must-read for every non-smokers’ rights advocate, every public health official and every local or state legislator who’s exploring the idea of enacting smoke-free legislation. But it also makes compelling reading for anyone interested in a true-life insider drama that offers a close-up view of a controversial public policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2402,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[172],"product_tag":[117,210,211,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-1543","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-law-unions-and-politics","7":"product_tag-health","8":"product_tag-public-policy","9":"product_tag-social-policy","10":"product_tag-victoria","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"sold-individually","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granvilleislandpublishing.com\/2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}