Sussex wrote:
I've watched too many of my family and friends die from smoking to support anyone using the 'it's my life and I will do what I like with it' slogan.
Smoking has killed too many people close to me, and each time that happens a bit of me is killed as well.
I've watched plenty of my friends and family die from alcohol related diseases. Heavy drinking is almost part of the culture up here.
I still wouldn't agree with the state restricting their right to drink the stuff.
I prefer persuasion.
If people don't want to listen to your message, you have no right to force it down their throats.
That IMO is arrogance and it's the thin end of the wedge.
Sussex wrote:
They care about you and don't want you dead.
Some of them think driving a cab on nights is more dangerous and would worry far less if I did something else for a living.
Should I give in to this as well?
Sussex wrote:
But the law is the law, folks breaking it shouldn't complain when they are bought to book.
This law shouldn't have been passed in the first place. It is an infringement of civil liberty.
If HMG really believes all this passive smoking tripe and wants to protect non smokers, they should have banned smoking outright.
That of course would have left a gaping hole in the country's finances.
One which the holier than though brigade would have needed to fill
BTW The Nuremburg laws passed in **** Germany were the law of the land there.
Should those brought to book under them have just accepted their fate without complaint?