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# the government have deem that you don't have the right to smoke where you want to
so have made it more difficult for you in the hope you will stop.

even though you ahve an easy access point to get to your lungs, i don't think the NHS wants to open you up again.
(, Wed 6 Jun 2007, 11:52, archived)
# but you could say that about so many things
so why just us??

why isn't macDonalds banned?
why isn't hard liquor banned?

it's one sided nonsense
(, Wed 6 Jun 2007, 11:59, archived)
# it isn't banned
you just can't do it exactly where you want to... and unfortunatley I think it's natural progression and probably has as much to do with the amount of money generated by smoking going down naturally as it has to do with government's concern with health issues... if you'd been sitting in your office, 20 years ago, 25, you could have had a smoke at your desk quite nicely
(, Wed 6 Jun 2007, 12:00, archived)
# it's to the very tip of being banned
push it any further and it will be illegal

illegal to do something as old as the human race itself
since we first discovered fire, we've smoked
and we've survived, we've lived on

but it doesn't fit the governments little view
of us all as battery hens, making sure they squeeze
every last tax drop out of my working bones
just so they can spend it on posh lunches in brighton
(, Wed 6 Jun 2007, 12:04, archived)
# They won't ban it
it's a nice little earner
(, Wed 6 Jun 2007, 12:07, archived)
# That's a falsehood
NHS spending due to smoking related illness outweighs taxation revenue. So, people die and taxpayers fund it.
(, Wed 6 Jun 2007, 13:03, archived)
# But it's for your own good.
Think of the children.

Besides, the rules of the game have changed.

*bokes*
(, Wed 6 Jun 2007, 12:10, archived)
# Rubbish - you can't smoke inside with a pint in your hand. So?
and the government which has been so strongly set against you throughout history has played a significant role in getting people to smoke, in the interest of the government at the expense of the people.

Also I don't think you can argue that smoking is as inate a human characteristic as, for example, making fire, music or whatever...

although apparently it is the reason why America speaks English rather than French or Spanish
(, Wed 6 Jun 2007, 12:11, archived)
# Burp! 'scuse me!
If you eat McGonads or drink hard liquor in an enclosed space, it isn't going to affect anyone elses health.

If you smoke in an enclosed space, it will affect other peoples health. What gives you the right to inflict all the diseases associated with smoking on other poeple?

Smoke all you like, but don't force other people to smoke too.
(, Thu 7 Jun 2007, 0:41, archived)