Dave Hosselhaff
Winger
I enjoy smoking and dont eat fatty foods.They do, and there is so much to be done about that, but that is no reason to do nothing about smoking.
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I enjoy smoking and dont eat fatty foods.They do, and there is so much to be done about that, but that is no reason to do nothing about smoking.
Labour have confirmed they would also bring it in if they win the next election which is why the labour MP’s voted to support it! So Starmer is as bad!Sunak and his latest crackpot scheme.
Great in principle but completely unworkable
The daft kernt
Obesity and diabetes will dwarf smoking deaths.
Wonder if these libertarians who think people should have the right to smoke and it should remain legal have the same view on cannabis or other drugs
Not really unworkable.Sunak and his latest crackpot scheme.
Great in principle but completely unworkable
The daft kernt
If you are young and want to take up vaping or smoking, knowing fine well all eyes are on you as you are seen as a chav scumbag with shit for brains instead of in your mind as cool, then go for it. Just don't expect a hospital bed in the future. The only time I see smokers are when I am unfortunate enough to pass somewhere like Blandford street, or seeing piss artists at the doorway of places like The railway tavern at 11am on a weekday. If they ban tobacco and it is still available on the black market, will smokers just be casually walking around puffing away knowing they could be given a fine and are places like Steels going to tolerate 20 smokers lurking outside between pints on a saturday night coughing their lungs up?. The place would be closed down overnight and rightfullly so.
I do.
Education, regulation and a well
Informed public is the answer not prohibition imho.
For the people certain in their views about smoking; what is the argument against doing this for other unhealthy vices? Takeaways shops providing meals of a certain calorie or saturated fat.. alcohol? What about gambling...everyone who's got an account now, fine, but no more...when it's actually the "new customer" 18 year olds which are targeted on every advert, bring big brother into that equation as well I suppose.
All well and good saying this ban isn't going to impact anyone now; but if it was such a good idea why would that even be a strong mitigation? Compassion for the addicted? It's just making criminals of future generations as far as I can see in a society where older folks will have the same drug perfectly legally.
The government doesn't *have* to sort everything out. You can't smoke a cigarette, gamble, drink or do anything but I can.
I enjoy smoking and dont eat fatty foods.
Obesity costs the NHS twice what smoking does, and a lot of A&E resources get eaten up by people who drink too much of a weekend.And drinkers and obese people, do they not cost owt when they get I'll? That's life. We don't want to go down the route of passing judgement on other peoples lifestyles. Tolerance is a foundation of a free democracy.
Start your own thread .As much as I can't understand people wanting to smoke - it makes them stink and is very harmful - that is their own legal choice currently. The legislation is already in place to protect children and teenagers.
I'd far rather Parliament time was taken to change the legislation on smacking rather than smoking. Hitting children should be illegal, in all circumstances. I am staggered that people still think it is OK to do this.
Protect children from smacking in England and Northern Ireland, say doctors
Physical punishment at home can have a lasting impact and end in abuse, children's doctors warn.www.bbc.co.uk
Years of addiction, stained fingers and wallpaper, COPD, £16 a packet, passive smoking...good riddance to selling cancer sticks to young people.
No you're right - I do enjoy smoking but wish I didn't. I smoke privately however and I'm well conscious of not doing it in front of kids.Good for you. Smoking induced lung cancer killed my grandad at 59, and smoking induced COPD has left another close family member housebound.
Do you really want to allow young people to be exposed to the harms of smoking tobacco?
I can say it no more clearly than this:
Fuck smoking, and fuck the people who want to allow tobacco to harm the next generation.
I don't think even Sunk believes it is workable, although he would never admit it.Obesity costs the NHS twice what smoking does, and a lot of A&E resources get eaten up by people who drink too much of a weekend.
The problem that I have with this legislation, aside from the fact that it's completely illiberal, is that it's totally unworkable. Bhutan unilaterally banned smoking and rolled it back ten years later, New Zealand inspired this legislation and are in the middle of rolling it back as we speak. They couldn't make it work when they as a nation are relatively isolated, we have an entire continent where smoking remains legal less than 30 miles away. It's widely accepted that the war on drugs has been lost, but people still expect this new law to be enforced.
Nah mate, I've no desire to do that after the verbal abuse I received last time from those with a guilty conscience.Start your own thread .