Actor Sean Penn is blatantly flouting Canadian law:

The Oscar winner puffed on a cigarette during a press conference in a hotel at the Toronto Film Festival last week, when he was promoting his new movie, "All the King's Men." In the state of Ontario smoking is banned in all enclosed public places. Although politicians and anti-tobacco campaigners called for him to be charged by police, he has escaped with just a written warning from Toronto public health officials. Despite the leniency, Ontario Health Promotion Minister Jim Watson insists, "We don't have a system in Canada where we have preferential treatment for someone who's famous or rich. "We welcome stars and mere mortals and everyone else to Ontario and they have to respect our laws." The Toronto Sutton Place Hotel, where the incident took place, must pay $540 for the violation.

You can't smoke in a public place in Canada? That has to be wrong! I thought Canada was the place where law and order goes to die, where anarchy and chaos reign supreme. In fact I read an article just the other day about a guy going on a wild crime spree, hijacking an ambulance and running over 100 pedestrians......now that I think about it, I may be confusing Canada with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I love that game. I'm such a winner.