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By: They have a little list of things they want to ban | Anonymong

They have a little list of things they want to ban | Anonymong — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:32:03 +0000

[...] have to worry about third hand smoke, and they’re looking at stopping you smoking in your own house or car if children are present, and of course publicans will be fine and imprisoned for not stopping people smoking when [...]

By: PT Barnum

PT Barnum — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:21:17 +0000

Cigarette cases and tobacco pouches will soon become must-have accessories to conceal the origin of the tobacco (mine coming from Germany where the health warning covers half the packet owing to German prolixity).

And making smokers stand outside will serve only to toughen us up and boost our immune systems. Smokers could soon be as indestructible as cockroaches!

By: Ch

Ch — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:35:10 +0000

Inasmuch as I know, you need a court order to go into someone’s house uninvited. So you may be right, Anna, children will have to denounce their parents …

By: mandyv

mandyv — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:59:03 +0000

So they are saying the warnings so not work, what a suprise.
You do not need an “ology” to work that one out.
Where the hell do they get off with the pretty packaging now, with the warnings and pictures.
Ask the kids where to get hold of drugs (illegal ones) they would know before the adults, no advertising at all. ASH have done more advertising than Big tobacco could have dreamt of.
Ban anything and it is a, must have for the kids, nothing smells worse than the stench of the purists.
mandyv
freedom2choose.info

By: ivan

ivan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:09:47 +0000

I gave up on cigarettes at university and have smoked a pipe for the last 50 years. Like Steve McIntosh my tobacco comes with the ‘smoking can kill’ warning in Spanish – after all it’s much cheaper just over the boarder.

By: Anon 00.32

Anon 00.32 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:51:10 +0000

I suspect increased time off work due to illness taken by smokers forced outside in winter might also be another result of The Law of Unintended Consequences.

By: Steve McIntosh

Steve McIntosh — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:51:06 +0000

Couldn’t care less. All of my tobacco now comes in a cheerful yellow Cutters Choice pack with “Fumar Puede Matar” on it. Not sure what the message is about – something about smoking is recommended by matadors ?

By: moorlandhunter

moorlandhunter — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:43:19 +0000

As an ex smoker I can tell the useless Burnham that no measures will stop anyone smoking unless the person is ready to do so. No amount of horror pictures, anti smoking advertising will work. People will smoke no matter what.
The smoking ban has killed off out pub trade, people who would go out for a drink and a smoke can no longer do so and thus hundreds of pubs are closing each month.
The pub and restaurant trade should have been given the choice of either being a smoking or non smoking venue so people could have the choice either to drink and dine in a smoke free premises or smoke filled ones. But in true freedom denying Labour Stalinist measures we see law abiding people being forced into the indignity of smoking a legal product outside a pub in all weathers, when unlawful drug users and those who use their premises for the use of illegal drugs get a slap on the wrist.
Again Labour has denied owners of pubs and restaurants the right to choose and thus the people of the UK.

By: sickofit

sickofit — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:29:34 +0000

Andy Burnham “thick as sh*t” like so many of his colleagues doesn’t have a clue about anything!

Gumbo is spot on.
Read a few statutes that relate to any form of licensing or registration and assuming you don’t drop off you will see there is no legal requirement to licence or register most things.
I say most because the statutes are some of the most boring documents ever written so I haven’t read them all. If you just manage to read through one you will be far wiser than most of those you spend your time with.

By: Cato

Cato — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:14:12 +0000

As someone who quit the filthy habit some 27 years ago (I was on 30 plus a day at the time) I feel the compulsion to laugh when I watch otherwise sane people rushing out of the pub every 15 minutes for a fix.

My daughter, who was then a smoker, used to work in a London casino and came home about 5am. She crept in like a mouse but the smell she brought in with her invariably woke us up. To say she stank like a filthy ashtray is somewhat of an understatement.

By: Joe Public

Joe Public — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:52:06 +0000

A perverse result of The Law of Unintended Consequences from banning smoking in pubs (& restaurants) is that all establishments now have outdoor heaters. This means they must contribute massively to Global Warming.

By: gumbo

gumbo — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:47:07 +0000

it is alleged,that if you register anything then it is the property of the state we are only keepers ie children,vehicles houses.

By: Anna Raccoon

Anna Raccoon — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:37:21 +0000

“to make it easier to spot the

By: Vimes

Vimes — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:14:01 +0000

While I consider the smoking ban in pubs to have been a classic example of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, I also feel that anyone who smokes in the presence of children is an idiot – having said that, the recent advertising campaign, using children as a form of moral blackmail, takes the art of cynical manipulation to levels of crassness of which the “Bock von Babelsberg” himself would have been proud.

By: Saul

Saul — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:03:10 +0000

I’t doesn’t matter how they are packaged, the choice of the majority of smokers is……the cheapest.
Grey unnattractive packaging should make them cheaper still.
Methinks that the real reason is to make it easier to spot the “rogue” non duty paid cigarettes that are widely available, practically everywhere these days.