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| Thread ID: 116678 | 2011-03-15 10:00:00 | New Zealand Smoke free in 14 Years | Bobh (5192) | PC World Chat |
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| 1186360 | 2011-03-15 18:57:00 | Heard on Channel three tonight that the Government has ambitions to make New Zealand smoke free in 14 years. www.monstersandcritics.com :clap:clap:clap |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1186361 | 2011-03-15 19:34:00 | "A vocal and active lobby group, the SmokeFree Coalition, said prohibition, or making it illegal to smoke, has never been its goal." Really?? Bad idea, alcohol will be next, THEY AINT TAKIN MY BEER !!! |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1186362 | 2011-03-15 19:42:00 | Make it illegal and it will go underground like pot does these days and alcohol prohibition did in the 1920s. I can hear the gangs saying "Bring it on bro, We will supply the market" | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1186363 | 2011-03-15 19:43:00 | While it would be nice to be smoke free I doubt it will happen in my lifetime | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1186364 | 2011-03-15 20:37:00 | 14 years too far away please make it sooner. Then they can start on alcohol which causes more deaths than smokes. Then after that ban fat and do random checks on your house to see if you're frying chips. And then make exercise compulsory. Etc etc. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1186365 | 2011-03-15 20:57:00 | Smoking actually saves some peoples lives, believe it or not. and if they ban smoking, the death and suicide rates will go up, as smokes are the only stress relief for some people. What an absolute load of old cobblers! Smoking kills. No question. The idea that smoking saves lives is ludicrous! To say that smoking is stress relief has no foundation whatsoever. Smoking is a filthy stinking habit. Make it illegal and it will go underground like pot does these days and alcohol prohibition did in the 1920s. I can hear the gangs saying "Bring it on bro, We will supply the market" Of course it will go underground. So the answer is not to make it illegal but to control it and putting up the price is perhaps one way to do that. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1186366 | 2011-03-15 21:24:00 | Then they can start on alcohol which causes more deaths than smokes. Then after that ban fat and do random checks on your house to see if you're frying chips. And then make exercise compulsory. Etc etc. 100% thats what will happen |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1186367 | 2011-03-15 21:25:00 | Prohibition doesn't work, if it did we'd be P free, cannabis free etc etc. My suggestion is make cigs cheaper and readily available, then smokers can kill themselves faster. :devil |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1186368 | 2011-03-15 22:04:00 | I promise to give up the day that ASH ( as a group ) donate the Tax take that we smokers give to the Government each year toward health care. If the idea works then as smoking declines so will the budget needed for health care and therefore ASH followers will have to donate less each year. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1186369 | 2011-03-15 23:59:00 | As far as making excuses go, no one can outdo smokers. Everything but facing up to the serious consequences of the continuing smoking. Consequences to other people and even their pathetic selves. I have just about had a guts full of smokers at work when I get a whiff of the foul odour I strain myself not to whack the offender over the head accidentally with a crowbar. Sign says Any person caught smoking in the workshop or yard will face instant dismissal The addicted bastards still try and have sneaky smokes. |
prefect (6291) | ||
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