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The dictatorship that banned smoking in public places

This smoking ban is just too much

The Smoking Ban

If you really feel that a smoking ban is a good thing, then have the courage of your convictions; make tobacco illegal and forego the revenue you collect on the product. Also, why the double standards?



Regarding the recently implemented smoking ban, I think we have now entered an era of dictatorship in the UK.  I wonder, what is the next topic that the 'politically correct' brigade will latch on to.

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13-6-2008"I don't understand why a small country like Ireland has just made The EU collapse" That is wishful thinking. Sadly, the Treaty will be pushed through regardless of what people want. This is no democracy.MikeP
13-6-2008Smoking ban, drinking ban, thinking ban ... Without freedom, we'd better kill ourselves. I AGREE WITH ' let me die from a lung cancer if I want it'FREETOSMOKE
13-6-2008I don't understand why a small country like Ireland has just made The EU collapse and why Britons didn't do anything to refuse the smoking ban to save peoples freedom !!!!!! Freedom must respect everyone whether smoker or not... It was much easier to authorize both smoking and non smoking b...moreLet me die from a lung cancer if I
07-6-2008The evil people promoting smoking bans have to be stopped. Fungling buckles they must go. The good that men do is oft interred with their bones. well, dust to dust, ashes to ashes I say.Parietal Control
06-6-2008The smoking ban is bad, it is severly damaging businesses, can't be be bothered to write more than that.SmokerUntillIDie
04-6-2008Pray tell me how we know "second hand smoke CAN increase the RISK of developing illnesses that CAN kill." That point of view is simply as a result of the propaganda. There is NO eveidence for this.Lie Detector
02-6-2008Evi just wants someone to do her homework for her. What's up, haven't found something good enough to steal yet? Kids these days.Mark
02-6-2008This is really biased and a waste of time. There isnt enough information for it to be helpful. please research as it could be a help for people doing case studies and such.Evi Thompson
22-5-2008So you do agree that smoking is dangerous to others then?Non smoking, not Anti smoking!
22-5-2008TO ALL AUTHORITIES! The smoking ban prevents smokers from smoking in bars and clubs because of the presence of other people that don't smoke! Now smokers smoke much more at home and the non smokers around are...their children!!! It's high time smoking was banned everywhere except on the s...moreFREETOSMOKE
11-5-2008"It is a form of respect and protection not to smoke where children are simply because they are vulnerable" What are you protecting children from then? If second hand smoke is not dangerous, then please explain, without being sarcastic or abusive, what you mean? Are you a father? Wou...moreNon smoking, not Anti smoking!
11-5-2008It is a form of respect and protection not to smoke where children are simply because they are vulnerable. But there is a big difference between adults and children. Adults like children can be irrational at times and that means they don't really know what they are talking about; they say and do...moreSuperBambinoCattivo



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