Smoking to be banned in all outdoor public places, town centres, streets, etc

Of course not, it's relatively inelastic so keeping high taxes on tobacco will allow us to keep more important taxes like income taxes low.

considering the government and authorities can't even enforce the current smoking ban i do find this idea quite laughable, people still frequently smoke on trains and in stations, i know a bus service in a remote part of Wales which still allows (unofficially) people to smoke.

Everyone knows the governments half hearted attempt to discourage smoking is the greatest joke of the modern age, British smokers pay some of the highest taxes in the world on tobacco products, if everyone quite tomorrow the government would probably go into shock and spontaneously burst into flames


http://online.wsj.com/news/interactive/RUSSMOKE20121016?ref=SB10000872396390443624204578058201182906048

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/05/which-countries-smoke-most-and-which-have-the-best-anti-smoking-ads/276422/


Every couple of weeks this topic, or something very close to this topic arises and it's starting to get rather boring now, as already stated by other posters, the average person is probably at far more risk from car exhausts and pollutants in the air from industry than they are from second hand smoke in the street.


Also ... France ...how is that an anti smoking advert? It just makes me want to smoke ...and touch myself...

.....at least it would if I was in charge.

I'm tired of smokers polluting outdoor public places with their filthy, dirty smoke with absolutely no regard for anyone. I'm also fed up of them littering the streets with their fag ends.

I propose that there should be a ban on smoking in all outdoor public places such as town centres, streets, platforms, etc.

Smokers should only be allowed to smoke in their own home, or in a select number of designated smoking areas/shelters. That way, smokers can be kept away from people who don't want to breath their smoke, and our streets can be free from the horrible sight of cigarette ends on all the pavements.

Every town and city should have street wardens who are paid to enforce these rules. Any smoker caught with a cigarette in public should be given a stern talking to about why it's wrong to smoke and the dangers it poses, followed by being given an on the spot fine.

Who here agrees with me?

I'd ban smoking and those e-cigs from all mildly populated public places. Indoor and outdoor.

The money they'd make from fining smokers who are caught would make up for any money lost by smokers who quit.

.....at least it would if I was in charge.

Who here agrees with me?

I'd ban smoking and those e-cigs from all mildly populated public places. Indoor and outdoor.

You guys are gonna face some serious troubles in life if people smoking outside rustles your jimmies this much.



I think you'll find smokers pay far more tax towards the NHS than smoking costs the NHS.

it 'rustles my jimmies' because every single time a smoker blows a smoke in my general direction I end up with asthma attack and every single time the smoker shrugs their shoulder or smirks

it 'rustles my jimmies' because every single time a smoker blows a smoke in my general direction I end up with asthma attack and every single time the smoker shrugs their shoulder or smirks. it pisses me off because it affects me directly.

I'm reasonably certain that you're actually imagining them smirking. It's quite paranoid, actually.

Having said that, it is funny when someone pretends to cough their guts up or, as you say, have an asthma attack, when they pass a smoker in the street. Funny that they seem to make no effort to avoid the smoker, and even move closer to them. It's like they want to be outraged.

I had asthma and it took a hell of a lot more to cause it than a whiff of smoke, and when I was having one I'd hardly be concentrating on what other people were doing

It seems like this is psychologically quite a deep issue for you, I suspect your "asthma attack" is actually a pscyhosomatic response, coupled with hallucinations that smokers are laughing at you

I find this very hard to believe.

that's not really my problem.

if I am in a bus stop and its pouring it down with rain, why should I move away?

actually I know this for a fact because my husband

politely asks smokers quite often to stop blowing in my direction because I am having an asthma attack and he gets the response I mentioned before. sometimes he gets told to '**** off'

I actually have severe ashtma so I don't 'pretend' to cough my guts up. Smoke stops me breathing, it always has. And if I am in a bus stop and its pouring it down with rain, why should I move away?