Oh right. When its about smokers all discrimination yellers forget what discrimination is.
Oh right. When its about smokers all discrimination yellers forget what discrimination is.
Please show it to me. I can't find it anywhere. Everything I have seen shows around an 11 billion pound tax and 11 billion pound weight on healthcare, ignoring losses in productivity.
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You can choose to smoke. You aren't born with a cigarette in your mouth.
Well, I know that smoking on patios here in Canada was banned last summer and have heard commentary from establishment owners that it has had some negative impact on their sales, but nothing huge. As for smoking in public outdoor places in general? Yeah, that I can support. Nothing more disgusting than going shopping either at a store or mall and having to walk through a fucking haze of smoke from the people lurking right in front of the door. Most private businesses have setup smoking areas to meet recent law changes but malls for instance, are not forced to comply for some dumb reason.
Sweden should go nuts, but they should expect to hear about it from businesses who will no doubt whine because of lost revenue from banning smoking outdoors at restaurants. That said, I love being able to chill on a patio on a warm summer day and not have to breath in that shit.
As a non-smoker I would of course welcome this decision, however, without being biased, I do think that facilities should at least have the freedom of choosing themselves whether they allow smoking outside or not.
Ban all smokers of all kind from this entire planet. You can always make cannabis edibles.
Dunno how much it is, but yes, tobacco and alcohol are both taxed heavily. They could free pot and prostitution and tax that and they would make a lot more, but they just dither on that issue. Shrug. Billions missed. They could bring in a couple of million more "refugees" on that alone. Of course muslims might think twice about moving here if drugs and sex became government controlled trades
"It's just like I always said! You can do battle with strength, you can do battle with wits, but no weapon can beat a great pair of tits!"
So can bacon, according to studies this year. Do you still eat bacon?
In Australia, smoking has now been banned within 4 meters of any public commercial building. That includes restaurants, shopping centers, the platforms at train stations, pretty much everywhere that's not open public on the street.
I'm okay with the law because I've dealt with it since about this time last year here, but I also enjoyed having a cigarette at a bar in Bali, beer in hand, watching the sports.
Well I hate the smell of that damn smoke so yes. Just ban it outdoors.
Don't see a problem with it being banned from those places as well.
This has £12bn income, but excludes employee tax contributions, and £14bn outgoing, but including a rather dodgy £2.9bn for smoke breaks - also taxes on tobacco have gone up since then.
https://fullfact.org/economy/does-sm...akes-treasury/
ASH have various facts sheets, but they have £19.4bn income and £13.9bn outgoing, so take their figures with a pinch of salt.
http://ash.org.uk/information/facts-...ts/fact-sheets
The problem is that everyone massages the figures, so ASH make odd claims about what is income from tobacco and anti-smoking groups include smoke breaks that employees would be taking anyway.