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Carrots Vs. Sticks: The Saga Continues
Where was this while we where growing up? What a deal!
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Comment By: Dan IP Address: 70.54.128.116 |
Jan 18, 2008 - 9:05 AM |
| That article is a little light on details. How are they going to enforce this? Haha, this could lead to some high-school blackmail: "Pete, I want half your non-smoking reward, or I'm going public with the TRUTH!" | |
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Comment By: PC IP Address: 24.57.225.56 |
Jan 18, 2008 - 10:48 AM |
| Of course it's light on details, it's from the Globe and Mail. I have no idea how they would enforce it, maybe a pinky swear? | |
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Comment By: Joe K IP Address: 76.10.163.104 |
Jan 21, 2008 - 11:32 PM |
| 100,000 kids, at $5,000 a kid is a lot of zeros, where are they getting half a billion dollars from? | |
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Comment By: Mike IP Address: 78.99.23.0 |
Jan 22, 2008 - 5:39 AM |
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I read a little bit more about this.
The Rewards Foundation is is a registered Canadian charitable organization. If you're a kid and you want to sign up, you go around your neighbourhood/family/whatever and find sponsors. These sponsors donate a small amount of money every month to the Rewards Foundation (which is tax deductible as a charitable donation). When you graduate, you get $5000 of the money that was donated (the rest of the money that was donated goes to the Life-Skills program, which kids are required to take, the CO testing (see below), and administration). A random carbon monoxide test is given 4 times a year. They claim that this test is sensitive enough to distinguish between first- and second-hand smoke. If you fail the test, $500 is knocked off your award, which you can make up by doing community service. |
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