Plans for minimum alcohol price

[Park Life 71]

He uses the smoking ban as an example of the "massive success", which is strange as there are no health benefits yet (at best we're looking at 10+ years - assuming it does make more people stop/not start).

 

 

Yet ignores that the smoking ban has already had "massive" and clear negative effects too - not health-wise, perhaps, but certainly economically as the supposed and much trumpeted and heralded wave of people that "didn't go into pubs because of smoking", completely and utterly failed to materialise.

 

This nanny stuff is ridiculous.

 

Adults should be allowed to indulge whatever vice they want whenever they want.

 

Exactly. The whole point of vices is they are bad for you. It's what being an adult is all about. Instead you get some jumped up Colonel Bufton-Tufton type telling you what's good for you. Every time one of these spokesmen appears on the telly they should be pelted with rotten fruit and sent packing like the humbugs and hypcrites they are.

 

Pack the fuckers off to N.Z.

[Park Life 71]

He uses the smoking ban as an example of the "massive success", which is strange as there are no health benefits yet (at best we're looking at 10+ years - assuming it does make more people stop/not start).

 

 

Yet ignores that the smoking ban has already had "massive" and clear negative effects too - not health-wise, perhaps, but certainly economically as the supposed and much trumpeted and heralded wave of people that "didn't go into pubs because of smoking", completely and utterly failed to materialise.

 

what is the ban for smoking over there? Here the ban is for restaurants and bars/pubs but the private clubs (i.e. fraternal orders, legions etc.) can get around it because the people behind the bars and waiting tables are volunteers and therefore not covered by worker compensation which was the real catalyst.

 

personally I think it's not such a bad idea, i enjoy not smoking a pack and a half of second hand cig's while I'm out and about, and my clothes don't reek like an ashtray, I'd have to say they probably have the "smoking" ban in the right places IMO

 

as far as raising taxes on booze, in BC we already have some of the highest prices in Canada and there is another raise coming for hard liquor.....about $1.30 / liter. It's funny to me that wine is cheaper in the UK than it is here ( i live in the Okanagan, wine country for fucks sake), damn government!!!!

 

Are you smoking for free you cunt? :lol:

[Kitman 2207]

He uses the smoking ban as an example of the "massive success", which is strange as there are no health benefits yet (at best we're looking at 10+ years - assuming it does make more people stop/not start).

 

 

Yet ignores that the smoking ban has already had "massive" and clear negative effects too - not health-wise, perhaps, but certainly economically as the supposed and much trumpeted and heralded wave of people that "didn't go into pubs because of smoking", completely and utterly failed to materialise.

 

This nanny stuff is ridiculous.

 

Adults should be allowed to indulge whatever vice they want whenever they want.

 

Exactly. The whole point of vices is they are bad for you. It's what being an adult is all about. Instead you get some jumped up Colonel Bufton-Tufton type telling you what's good for you. Every time one of these spokesmen appears on the telly they should be pelted with rotten fruit and sent packing like the humbugs and hypcrites they are.

 

Pack the fuckers off to N.Z.

 

Maybe NZ could reform them. They don't like whingers here.

[Fop 1]

Taxing people by the Kg? Or "Passive Obesity"?

[tooner 243]

He uses the smoking ban as an example of the "massive success", which is strange as there are no health benefits yet (at best we're looking at 10+ years - assuming it does make more people stop/not start).

 

 

Yet ignores that the smoking ban has already had "massive" and clear negative effects too - not health-wise, perhaps, but certainly economically as the supposed and much trumpeted and heralded wave of people that "didn't go into pubs because of smoking", completely and utterly failed to materialise.

 

what is the ban for smoking over there? Here the ban is for restaurants and bars/pubs but the private clubs (i.e. fraternal orders, legions etc.) can get around it because the people behind the bars and waiting tables are volunteers and therefore not covered by worker compensation which was the real catalyst.

 

personally I think it's not such a bad idea, i enjoy not smoking a pack and a half of second hand cig's while I'm out and about, and my clothes don't reek like an ashtray, I'd have to say they probably have the "smoking" ban in the right places IMO

 

as far as raising taxes on booze, in BC we already have some of the highest prices in Canada and there is another raise coming for hard liquor.....about $1.30 / liter. It's funny to me that wine is cheaper in the UK than it is here ( i live in the Okanagan, wine country for fucks sake), damn government!!!!

 

Are you smoking for free you cunt?

 

haha....why whatever do you mean?

[Kitman 2207]

Taxing people by the Kg? Or "Passive Obesity"?

 

These gravy trainers never fail to state the obvious, do they? Being massively overweight is bad for you and could shorten your life? Who'd have thought? We should have a lengthy and expensive scientific study on that just to be sure......