Listening to radio 5 live this morning, they have just said that New York are to become the first place where smoking is to be banned in all public places. It is now only permitted on your own property. I wonder if we`ll follow suit any time soon.
Listening to radio 5 live this morning, they have just said that New York are to become the first place where smoking is to be banned in all public places. It is now only permitted on your own property. I wonder if we`ll follow suit any time soon.
Why not just do what they are aching to do and ban it totally, the sale of tobaco products, the possesion of tobacco products.
take police away from their duties to
back up a smoking ban... good idea.
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Crawley already have town patrols, not police to target litter droppers so they could just increase their scope to cover smokers.
Most towns could employ people as a smokers patrol or even add the duties to car park attendants and the fines imposed would probably cover their wages.
Malawi (in Southern Africa) wants to pass legislation that makes it illegal to fart in public.
because they have a massive tax rake from the tobacco tax. Also it would be rather difficult to justify a full ban while the tobacco industry is run from offices in your country. so a ban would lead to 10s if not 100s of thousands of job losses. what senator/congressman or MP is going to vote for that?
i'd be rather irritated if parliament started wasting time on more legislation about smoking when there are rather more important issues to be looked at.
It will put tobacco into the hands of criminals. I know that worked well with drugs and booze didnt it.
Whether it works forever or not, it's making an important statement that human health is more important than how much money can be made from the sale of something dangerous. Next stop: out-of-date weaponry to be used to quell Egyptian revolts and cheese stuffed-crust pizzas.