We are experiencing the worst forest fire season in the last 56 years here in B.C.
There are close to 2 hundred fires right now, and have cost more than a hundred million dollars in just damage, and that isn’t one penny towards fighting these fires.
Main highways have been closed for over 3 weeks, costing even more money to get goods to the towns north of these fires, as transports have to take other highways and extend their trips from 4 to 10 hours.
Why I bring this up, is several of these really bad fires have been caused by people throwing their butts out the window.
We are all going to pay dearly for all this in insurance going up, other taxes going up as governments have to pay for this fire bill, should all smokers not pay as well as in more taxes on tobacco products?