Smoking On T.V. BAN IT! Pre Watershed Anyways!
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fewer of those "added" chemicals
greenstiles
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Children like to rebel against adults but also like to be like them..........so most kids start smoking to emulate adult behaviour, it's kinda like an early adulthood for them. Sad to see kids just trying to be more grown up by inhaling poison. I t has no nutritional value and it doesn't give you an obvious pleasant feeling.
Quite rightly there is no safe level of smoking it is 100% harmful BAN IT.
I'm an ex -smoker and I wish that smoking had been banned before I ever started.
My mother -in law is on oxygen everyday due do smoking BAN IT.
Alcohol needs to be discussed away from smoking as there can be a safe level of drinking. Sadly this is not 'policed' enough by parents, society, the police, supermarkets/off licences, the public etc etc.
If we are to drink are attitude towards it needs to change in this country.
As for drugs again we need to study the root causes why we feel the need to do all these things..........are we that unhappy ?????
Quite rightly there is no safe level of smoking it is 100% harmful BAN IT.
I'm an ex -smoker and I wish that smoking had been banned before I ever started.
My mother -in law is on oxygen everyday due do smoking BAN IT.
Alcohol needs to be discussed away from smoking as there can be a safe level of drinking. Sadly this is not 'policed' enough by parents, society, the police, supermarkets/off licences, the public etc etc.
If we are to drink are attitude towards it needs to change in this country.
As for drugs again we need to study the root causes why we feel the need to do all these things..........are we that unhappy ?????
Alcohol is a poison
Ban that too
Caffeine is a poison
Ban that too
Where do you stop banning things?
What about freedom of choice?
If a human being wants to do something that they find pleasurable then so long as it hurts no one else then they IMHO can do it.
As for banning smoking on TV.... how about banning TV....didn't think of that did you?
TV is a poison too you know, it poisons the minds of kids with violence from an early age, shows them images of 'celebrities' and 'models' who are clearly not good role models for those who grow up wired to the TV because their parents can't be bothered to actually interact with their kids.
"Television, the drug of a nation. Breeding ignorance & feeding radiation"
Ban that too
Caffeine is a poison
Ban that too
Where do you stop banning things?
What about freedom of choice?
If a human being wants to do something that they find pleasurable then so long as it hurts no one else then they IMHO can do it.
As for banning smoking on TV.... how about banning TV....didn't think of that did you?
TV is a poison too you know, it poisons the minds of kids with violence from an early age, shows them images of 'celebrities' and 'models' who are clearly not good role models for those who grow up wired to the TV because their parents can't be bothered to actually interact with their kids.
"Television, the drug of a nation. Breeding ignorance & feeding radiation"
rosstheboss
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I'm with Greenstiles - smoking should now just be banned - You can't smoke in public places, shops have started to hide them from the general public, and, now the number of people actually smoking has dropped dramatically, the government is losing money hand over fist trying to keep long term smokers alive in some way shape or form. It seems strange that we spend billions each year on trying to keep people alive who are intent on damaging themselves willfully and knowingly.
I used to smoke, I'm not a smoking nazi, I even still occassionally have one when I'm bladdered. There just isn't a point to smoking.
Drinking is a social thing, and I expect soon we'll have RSA (Responsible Service of Alcohol) style certificates like those used in Australia to help police how bars serve people, especially those incapable of speech, who really should just go home. I was a barman for 5 years and ran a bar for a while. If you run a bar or pub right, everyone has a good time, if you just let everyone get as pissed as they can, then you'll have problems.
I used to smoke, I'm not a smoking nazi, I even still occassionally have one when I'm bladdered. There just isn't a point to smoking.
Drinking is a social thing, and I expect soon we'll have RSA (Responsible Service of Alcohol) style certificates like those used in Australia to help police how bars serve people, especially those incapable of speech, who really should just go home. I was a barman for 5 years and ran a bar for a while. If you run a bar or pub right, everyone has a good time, if you just let everyone get as pissed as they can, then you'll have problems.
I don't think banning smoking on TV will make any difference.
Just look at the average school at home time, there are lots of people smoking, most of them parents picking up their kids.
Just teach your kids how bad smoking is instead of trying to pretend it doesn't happen.
Just look at the average school at home time, there are lots of people smoking, most of them parents picking up their kids.
Just teach your kids how bad smoking is instead of trying to pretend it doesn't happen.
Banning things and saying what is correct is a thing of fascist states, I dont know if you really know what that means, as most of Europe was free from it long time ago.
But, for the regime, its everything done in peoples best interest.
Even censorship. 1000 People died in Turbuekuzeistan ? 100 will be best, we don't want to install a panic about a situation thousands of miles from here.
The answer will and it will always be about education, whats wrong and whats right, you should decided. And through education you will get the tools for doing that.
Fascist states don't like educations cause it gives you "more choices" to think about.
You may think this is silly but think again. We're erasing history, airbrushing lucky lucks smoke, churchill, etc..
Even if I don't smoke, should I be forced to accept what someone says its the right thing to do. What about my freedom?
today is smoke, tomorrow alcool, coffe, salt on food, sugar, sports, extreme sports.... just give someone a cause and you'll see..
But, for the regime, its everything done in peoples best interest.
Even censorship. 1000 People died in Turbuekuzeistan ? 100 will be best, we don't want to install a panic about a situation thousands of miles from here.
The answer will and it will always be about education, whats wrong and whats right, you should decided. And through education you will get the tools for doing that.
Fascist states don't like educations cause it gives you "more choices" to think about.
You may think this is silly but think again. We're erasing history, airbrushing lucky lucks smoke, churchill, etc..
Even if I don't smoke, should I be forced to accept what someone says its the right thing to do. What about my freedom?
today is smoke, tomorrow alcool, coffe, salt on food, sugar, sports, extreme sports.... just give someone a cause and you'll see..
greenstiles
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All the other products you mention can have benifical effects in moderation and some salt is essential, smoking does not have any positive effects.
Just being overly liberal with choice does not make a better world.
The use of the word facist seems exrteme in the case of something that actually would help people live longer if they stopped doing it.
I do understand that lots of things are under scrutiny at the moment to do with health, but as stated before, smoking does not have any nutritional value, it is not a food source.
Just being overly liberal with choice does not make a better world.
The use of the word facist seems exrteme in the case of something that actually would help people live longer if they stopped doing it.
I do understand that lots of things are under scrutiny at the moment to do with health, but as stated before, smoking does not have any nutritional value, it is not a food source.
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Think I might have to bring my fire engine out to get some of you lot off your high horse. The anti-smoking lobby are never happy so we may as well just ban it.
People smoking on EE makes bugger all difference. Teach your children the rights and wrongs and they'll be fine. Do you cover their eye's when a very naughty smoker walks past in the street? Get a grip.
BTW, I'm still waiting for all the non smokers to turn up in the local pubs like they said they would when it was banned. Better hurry though as they're closing all the time round our way so there soon won't be many left to sit and look smug in. :roll:
People smoking on EE makes bugger all difference. Teach your children the rights and wrongs and they'll be fine. Do you cover their eye's when a very naughty smoker walks past in the street? Get a grip.
BTW, I'm still waiting for all the non smokers to turn up in the local pubs like they said they would when it was banned. Better hurry though as they're closing all the time round our way so there soon won't be many left to sit and look smug in. :roll:
Playing devil's advocate, though, society and the legal system has already set precedent with not allowing smoking advertising near schools, ruling on what sorts of advertising can target children or minors (smoking being one of the first to go, there), and indeed the tobacco industry being regulated on targeting children or minors.technodup":1zpr1drj said:
It doesn't just stop with tobacco products, these days, either.
Reminds me of a comment I heard on Radio 4 recently - can't remember what the discussion was about, now - but the comment was making the point that in past times, smoking was indicative of affluence - or aspiration to affluence - but that's hardly the case, these days.My_Teenage_Self":2ulcupes said:
I'd agree with some of your points about alcohol - but emphasis on another subject, need not mandate forgetting about another. And whilst the effects of alcohol can be overtly displayed, too - the damages of smoking shouldn't be out of sight and out of mind.
