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Full Smoking Ban?
Should the UK follow New Zealand's lead and work towards a full smoking ban?
I think it's a very brave move, and personally I'd be all for it.
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I think it's a very brave move, and personally I'd be all for it.
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naomi: "Conversely, TTT, I knew a lady who smoked all her life and died age 84. In her later years she became housebound and smoking was her only real pleasure. Would I have taken that away from her? No, I wouldn't. " - of course not, I know it can actually be more dangerous to stop after a lifetime of smoking. That's the beauty of the NZ system. existing smokers can...
12:56 Sun 12th Dec 2021
A-H
You could argue that there are boundaries which society set.
Take drink driving as an example. There was a time you could get tanked up and drink yourself home but as a society we decided that the negatives of doing this far outweighed any idea of personal freedom.
It's when personal freedoms break the borders of acceptable behaviour that laws are altered.
You could argue that there are boundaries which society set.
Take drink driving as an example. There was a time you could get tanked up and drink yourself home but as a society we decided that the negatives of doing this far outweighed any idea of personal freedom.
It's when personal freedoms break the borders of acceptable behaviour that laws are altered.
naomi24
Ask analogy isn't a comparison between two ideas. It's an expression of ONE idea to throw light on the subject being discussed.
My point is this - you may have the 'freedom' to drive without a seatbelt, or commit murder, or set fire to a school - in that there is no physical measures preventing you from engaging in these acts, you're not actually free to do these acts because there are societal and legal consequences.
But this isn't the main thrust of the discussion - you believe that people should be free to smoke if they wish. But do you agree that as a society we should discourage it?
Isn't that what we do already, with restrictions on purchase, advertising, and exorbitant taxes? Wouldn't this step simply be taking it to its natural conclusion?
Imagine a society in 50 years where 99% of the population never smoked? Just like now when the idea of smoking in an office, club, pub, aeroplane, tube station seems completely alien.
Wouldn't that be brilliant?
Ask analogy isn't a comparison between two ideas. It's an expression of ONE idea to throw light on the subject being discussed.
My point is this - you may have the 'freedom' to drive without a seatbelt, or commit murder, or set fire to a school - in that there is no physical measures preventing you from engaging in these acts, you're not actually free to do these acts because there are societal and legal consequences.
But this isn't the main thrust of the discussion - you believe that people should be free to smoke if they wish. But do you agree that as a society we should discourage it?
Isn't that what we do already, with restrictions on purchase, advertising, and exorbitant taxes? Wouldn't this step simply be taking it to its natural conclusion?
Imagine a society in 50 years where 99% of the population never smoked? Just like now when the idea of smoking in an office, club, pub, aeroplane, tube station seems completely alien.
Wouldn't that be brilliant?
barry: "Only very selfish smokers would choose to smoke in a car or any confined space where non-smokers are present. " - that's pretty well all of them, I see it countless times kid in back seat mum and dad puffing away in the front. Ironically they usually have a "child on board" sticker! If smokers were not selfish the 2007 smoking ban would not have been necessary.
'Auschwitz did not fall suddenly from the skies', Sp.
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I don't like cabbage, ttt, but I wouldn't stop you eating it.
Outside of the current Cabinet, you must be one of the only so-called conservatives who keeps demanding more state intervention in peoples' lives.
Stop watching (and believing) the BBC and Sky is my advice.
And if you don't I demand they are banned.
Outside of the current Cabinet, you must be one of the only so-called conservatives who keeps demanding more state intervention in peoples' lives.
Stop watching (and believing) the BBC and Sky is my advice.
And if you don't I demand they are banned.
