Do you think banning tobacco from display in shops will stop people smoking?
Have speed cameras stopped everybody speeding? The short answer is the ban will make no difference whatsoever to people stopping smoking. The ban on smoking in all pubs has only resulted in the loss of many pubs. This ban on displays is merely the formality which leads to the already discussed “licence to purchase tobacco products” without which you cannot purchase them and for which you will have to register. The Government will then have a data base for every smoker in the UK – Just another cog in the big brother surveillance machine. As for the dangers of smoking – I liked the one last year where after the blanket ban (not the original idea outlined in Labour’s 2005 manifesto under which there would have been a freedom of choice for pubs to be smoking or nonsmoking) was imposed the health experts said obesity was actually more dangerous than smoking – talk about “make your fecking minds up”. Strange though that more people die from obesity in the UK than “smoking related diseases” a
