Comments on: Crawling out of the woodwork http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/2012/09/02/smoking-prohibition/ Just someone who despairs at the stupidity of her species. Mon, 20 May 2013 08:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Misanthrope Girl http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/2012/09/02/smoking-prohibition/#comment-23278 Misanthrope Girl Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:36:10 +0000 http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/?p=1011#comment-23278 Probation, if enacted, will cost governments dear... until they raise taxes across the board to pay for the shortfall - at which point it will cost smokers, drinkers, non-smokers and teetotallers alike more. And as there will still be smoking and drinking, crime will go up as everyone who likes a puff or a tipple instantly becomes a criminal. Treble fails all round. Probation, if enacted, will cost governments dear… until they raise taxes across the board to pay for the shortfall – at which point it will cost smokers, drinkers, non-smokers and teetotallers alike more.

And as there will still be smoking and drinking, crime will go up as everyone who likes a puff or a tipple instantly becomes a criminal.

Treble fails all round.

]]> By: Nightlurker http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/2012/09/02/smoking-prohibition/#comment-23275 Nightlurker Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:55:29 +0000 http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/?p=1011#comment-23275 What I would like to know is who do these fools think will pay for the tax revenue lost when smoking and booze is banned? It certainly will not be made up by the "savings" to the health service. The doctors will find something else to cure with that money. What I would like to know is who do these fools think will pay for the tax revenue lost when smoking and booze is banned? It certainly will not be made up by the “savings” to the health service. The doctors will find something else to cure with that money.

]]> By: JuliaM http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/2012/09/02/smoking-prohibition/#comment-23227 JuliaM Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:45:29 +0000 http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/?p=1011#comment-23227 I fear it's too late. They'll have their success. I fear it’s too late. They’ll have their success.

]]> By: SadButMadLad http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/2012/09/02/smoking-prohibition/#comment-23224 SadButMadLad Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:07:09 +0000 http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/?p=1011#comment-23224 With the population of Guernsey being only about 65,000 there aren't going to be a huge number of adolescents on the islands. And taking into account that the number of those actually smoking is going to be in the low tens of percentage there are going to be very young smokers. So GASP will have an easy job and then they can crow about how they changed their small world - which will then be picked up by every other puritanical organisation as "proof" that banning cigarettes to those born after 2000 really does work and it can be made to work for the whole world. Very dangerous. GASP should not be allowed any success as it will be used as the first of many small steps by the anti-tobacco groups. With the population of Guernsey being only about 65,000 there aren’t going to be a huge number of adolescents on the islands. And taking into account that the number of those actually smoking is going to be in the low tens of percentage there are going to be very young smokers. So GASP will have an easy job and then they can crow about how they changed their small world – which will then be picked up by every other puritanical organisation as “proof” that banning cigarettes to those born after 2000 really does work and it can be made to work for the whole world. Very dangerous. GASP should not be allowed any success as it will be used as the first of many small steps by the anti-tobacco groups.

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