*Most* parents do not smoke around their children. Some do, but not most.
Phasing out smoking
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*Most* parents do not smoke around their children. Some do, but not most.
How I wish there was a parenting license. Parenting is a responsibility, not a right, and that right should be taken away if you suck at it.
Anyway, banning smoking inside a car with children in it is quite easily enforcable.
I'd love to see the statistics!
You're correct. Parenting is a responsibility, not a right. And the government can take your children away if you do suck at it.
How would you enforce a parenting license? Force women (or men) on birth control?
I'd like to note that I said "how I wish" - that is, I have no clue how to make it work, or if it can even work in principle.
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
Statistically, you're more likely to kill someone while drunk. Voodoo pharmacology is a myth. If Bob does some coke and then kills someone, Bob is the murderer, not the coke.
You're right, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to ban smoking everywhere, when you're still allowed to drive everywhere.
CIVPhilzilla
Reagan Republican
It's not the governments business to legislate how people live their lives. If people won't to smoke let them pay higher insurance premiums and have shorter lives, no skin off my back.
Communisto
Condottiere
this is exactly the reason why every substance should be legal. Other people have no right to tell me what to do with my own body.
I think they don't mean just bodily harm. Psychological harm to friends and especially family. Imagine the mental anguish of the parents or boy/girlfriends?
I don't really think psychological harm to friends/family can compare to physical harm.
Except, as said before a dozen times, smoking does not only affect the body which takes it.
I fail to see how it's any worse than an alcoholic.
Mercenary82
King
This would never work for the same reason alchohol prohibition never worked, it will cause more problems than it solves. You will essentially be creating a new black market for criminals to exploit. I think our police have much more important things to do than busting people for smoking tobacco.
AL_DA_GREAT
amour absinthe révolution
lower the nicotine levels in ciggarettes, it would make them less addictive.
Eukaryote
Deity
It makes our taxes higher with all their damn disease, that's why it's our buisness.
Easily countered with cigarette tax.
In Ontario, you pay 5.30 in tax alone on each pack (25). If you smoke two packs a week, that's 550 dollars a year, or ~16500 over 30 years. This in addition to a much higher amount you paid for normal healthcare.
If the commercials are right, only one in three smokers will die from tobacco. So that's ~49,000 per smoker. Sounds alright to me.
If the commercials are right, only one in three smokers will die from tobacco. So that's ~49,000 per smoker. Sounds alright to me.
Mercenary82
King
Well I don't ski or mountain climb, and when people are injured or need to be rescued my tax dolars pay for that, so by this same logic of phasing out smoking, should we ban mountain climbing and other dangerous sports?
Mise
isle of lucy
I think it should me made much, much harder for teenagers to start smoking. Probably not to the point of banning it outright, however. I also think that selling cigarettes in clubs and pubs should be banned...... 
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
Great idea. The first thing we should do is stop arresting people for behavior that doesn't hurt other people.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I don't buy the argument that "it harms people." It's their personal choice to do so.
Where do I mention cocaine? I said chocolate, as in candy. It makes people fat.
Well, you said
AlCosta said:
Cocaine is a choice. It is banned.
I don't think you are arguing that everything that is a personal choice should be legal.. are you?
