| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places 17:49 - Nov 13 with 5534 views | pickles110564 |
I could even think about voting for them if they were to bring this in. |  | | |  |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 17:54 - Nov 13 with 5171 views | J2BLUE |
I fully support the public places ban but this is a step too far. Seems more about trying to impose anti smoking beliefs than any actual benefit.
Also isn't it only Welsh Labour? |  |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 17:56 - Nov 13 with 5158 views | pickles110564 |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 17:54 - Nov 13 by J2BLUE |
I fully support the public places ban but this is a step too far. Seems more about trying to impose anti smoking beliefs than any actual benefit.
Also isn't it only Welsh Labour? |
They normally put stuff out in smaller areas to see how grass root opinion is, unions will back as before to protect their workers. | | | |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 20:44 - Nov 13 with 5030 views | GluedtoBlue |
I've been wanting this ban for years. Sort of.
I appreciate you can't just stop people smoking as many are addicted, however, smoking zones in public places more great sense providing they're enforced.
I don't want to wall behind someone in town centre blowing smoke in my face and I certainly don't want my children fiddling by when lit bags are held at their head height. |  |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 21:32 - Nov 13 with 4981 views | BloomBlue |
Hopefully they will also ban all non electric cars within 12 months of becoming the government. Petrol and diesel is the root cause of so much bad health someone needs to take banning them serious |  | | |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 22:16 - Nov 13 with 4928 views | BrixtonBlue |
Bit OTT if you ask me. |  |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 22:28 - Nov 13 with 4916 views | Clapham_Junction |
It'll also be hugely beneficial to the environment. Cigarette butts are the single most common item of litter (despite smokers only being around 20% of the population) and also release toxins when they end up in water (many end up in the sea because they're washed down storm drains).
Never understood why so many smokers think it's acceptable to litter - according to a study I just found, something like 75% of butts are just dropped on the ground - 5.5 trillion a year. |  | | |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 23:31 - Nov 13 with 4863 views | Ryorry |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 21:32 - Nov 13 by BloomBlue |
Hopefully they will also ban all non electric cars within 12 months of becoming the government. Petrol and diesel is the root cause of so much bad health someone needs to take banning them serious |
Unless you think they'll not get into power for at least 5 years, you have a massively optimistic view of battery capacity and the provision of power points for EVs, esp if you happen to live in the sticks.
https://www.confused.com/car-insurance/electric-cars-report |  |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 00:00 - Nov 14 with 4834 views | Sarge |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 20:44 - Nov 13 by GluedtoBlue |
I've been wanting this ban for years. Sort of.
I appreciate you can't just stop people smoking as many are addicted, however, smoking zones in public places more great sense providing they're enforced.
I don't want to wall behind someone in town centre blowing smoke in my face and I certainly don't want my children fiddling by when lit bags are held at their head height. |
Could you not simply move slightly rather than having everything banned? | | | |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 00:04 - Nov 14 with 4826 views | davblue |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 22:28 - Nov 13 by Clapham_Junction |
It'll also be hugely beneficial to the environment. Cigarette butts are the single most common item of litter (despite smokers only being around 20% of the population) and also release toxins when they end up in water (many end up in the sea because they're washed down storm drains).
Never understood why so many smokers think it's acceptable to litter - according to a study I just found, something like 75% of butts are just dropped on the ground - 5.5 trillion a year. |
I never understood the fascination with smoking tbh. |  | | |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 00:07 - Nov 14 with 4824 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 00:04 - Nov 14 by davblue |
I never understood the fascination with smoking tbh. |
Well you probably don't smoke. |  |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 02:03 - Nov 14 with 4768 views | urbanblue |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 00:07 - Nov 14 by Lord_Lucan |
Well you probably don't smoke. |
Brilliant!  |  | | |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 07:03 - Nov 14 with 4685 views | dickie |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 00:00 - Nov 14 by Sarge |
Could you not simply move slightly rather than having everything banned? |
Not usually until it's too late. I've been saying ban it outside of people's homes for years. It'll be nice being able to sit outside at a pub or restaurant without coming home stinking. | | | |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 07:23 - Nov 14 with 4664 views | chiddley |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 22:28 - Nov 13 by Clapham_Junction |
It'll also be hugely beneficial to the environment. Cigarette butts are the single most common item of litter (despite smokers only being around 20% of the population) and also release toxins when they end up in water (many end up in the sea because they're washed down storm drains).
Never understood why so many smokers think it's acceptable to litter - according to a study I just found, something like 75% of butts are just dropped on the ground - 5.5 trillion a year. |
I guess based on this we should ban chewing gum also? |  |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 07:47 - Nov 14 with 4636 views | giant_stow |
Bludy fascists |  |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 09:27 - Nov 14 with 4568 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 07:03 - Nov 14 by dickie |
Not usually until it's too late. I've been saying ban it outside of people's homes for years. It'll be nice being able to sit outside at a pub or restaurant without coming home stinking. |
You be exaggerating. | |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 10:08 - Nov 14 with 4528 views | giant_stow |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 07:03 - Nov 14 by dickie |
Not usually until it's too late. I've been saying ban it outside of people's homes for years. It'll be nice being able to sit outside at a pub or restaurant without coming home stinking. |
You might end up coming back from the pub after being around violence instead, with lots of grumpy unsatisfied addicts knocking about. What non smokers don't understand is that smoking isn't like having a drink or not - it's something that wee want to do throughout the day, not just in the times/places deemed appropriate by others. And in reality, a few puffs of smoke in the open air wouldnt hurt anyone.
My favorite is when Im stoud outside the office having a fag and someone walks right by me in my space and coughs. Lap it up or give me space. | |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 10:12 - Nov 14 with 4518 views | hampstead_blue |
If Labour got in all hell would break loose.
The Unions would grind us to a halt,
Wage inflation
Price inflation
Assets will be taken back into public ownership
Taxes will go up
Spending will be ridiculously high
I've bought my cave and have an Ex MOD Land Rover geared-up ready to go. |  |
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Those who assume and insist they know are daft and in denial.
Those who assume, insist, and deny the truth are plain stupid.
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 10:15 - Nov 14 with 4510 views | brazil1982 |
Who on earth would enforce it? | | | |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 10:16 - Nov 14 with 4509 views | PiercingBlue |
Why don't you vote labour now? What is wrong with you? | | | |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 11:35 - Nov 14 with 4470 views | Clapham_Junction |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 07:23 - Nov 14 by chiddley |
I guess based on this we should ban chewing gum also? |
I don't think the need is quite as pressing as it is for smoking - there aren't the same issues with passive smoking or the toxicity of the litter - but I wouldn't be totally opposed to the idea. The amount of chewing gum on pavements does seem to be worse in the UK than many other countries I've visited.
However, it might be more practical to force chewing gum producers to change the product so that it is meant to be swallowed at the end, or to make it completely biodegradable. Iceland have recently started selling the latter: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/iceland-plastic-free-gum-biodegr | | | |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 11:41 - Nov 14 with 4459 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 22:28 - Nov 13 by Clapham_Junction |
It'll also be hugely beneficial to the environment. Cigarette butts are the single most common item of litter (despite smokers only being around 20% of the population) and also release toxins when they end up in water (many end up in the sea because they're washed down storm drains).
Never understood why so many smokers think it's acceptable to litter - according to a study I just found, something like 75% of butts are just dropped on the ground - 5.5 trillion a year. |
In Hong Kong everyone smokes but you don't see many dog ends because you are never more than 5 yards away from a bin and ash tray. In UK you can't find a bin in the street.
Go figure.
Why should everything be banned just because you personally don't like it?
What gives you the right to think this way?
This is exactly how Nazi Germany started. [Post edited 14 Nov 2018 11:42]
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 11:42 - Nov 14 with 4452 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 10:08 - Nov 14 by giant_stow |
You might end up coming back from the pub after being around violence instead, with lots of grumpy unsatisfied addicts knocking about. What non smokers don't understand is that smoking isn't like having a drink or not - it's something that wee want to do throughout the day, not just in the times/places deemed appropriate by others. And in reality, a few puffs of smoke in the open air wouldnt hurt anyone.
My favorite is when Im stoud outside the office having a fag and someone walks right by me in my space and coughs. Lap it up or give me space. |
I'm a non-smoker but I'm totally with you on this.
Also, can you hold more cigarettes with the extra digit? | |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 11:44 - Nov 14 with 4443 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 10:12 - Nov 14 by hampstead_blue |
If Labour got in all hell would break loose.
The Unions would grind us to a halt,
Wage inflation
Price inflation
Assets will be taken back into public ownership
Taxes will go up
Spending will be ridiculously high
I've bought my cave and have an Ex MOD Land Rover geared-up ready to go. |
You got any proof for any of this or has Project Fear got a new project? | |
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| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 12:08 - Nov 14 with 4411 views | Clapham_Junction |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 11:41 - Nov 14 by Lord_Lucan |
In Hong Kong everyone smokes but you don't see many dog ends because you are never more than 5 yards away from a bin and ash tray. In UK you can't find a bin in the street.
Go figure.
Why should everything be banned just because you personally don't like it?
What gives you the right to think this way?
This is exactly how Nazi Germany started. [Post edited 14 Nov 2018 11:42]
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"What gives you the right to think this way?"
Are you suggesting people shouldn't have a right to think in certain ways? Surely this is actually how Nazi Germany started, rather than people being opposed to something that was manifestly harmful for society. | | | |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 12:22 - Nov 14 with 4384 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Wow Labour looking to ban smoking in open places on 12:08 - Nov 14 by Clapham_Junction |
"What gives you the right to think this way?"
Are you suggesting people shouldn't have a right to think in certain ways? Surely this is actually how Nazi Germany started, rather than people being opposed to something that was manifestly harmful for society. |
Nah.
You've just twisted what I said. Plain as day.
Go and find something else to get infuriated about.
Bye bye | |
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