no more fuming
England will go "smokefree" in a week. They follow Scotland, Wales, and Ireland down this path. Maybe France next??!
This legislation will help to prevent the unnecessary deaths caused every year from second-hand smoke, and recognises that there is absolutely no safe level of exposure.
I would be more likely to agree that there is "absolutely no safe level of exposure" to government legislation. In fact, there is now more controversy about whether the signs meet ISO/EU standards, and (of course) the whole regime will be reviewed in another three years.
It is claimed that going smokefree will be good for businesses --- I must ask why they didn't take this route voluntarily?
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
[From The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment by C. S. Lewis]
This legislation will help to prevent the unnecessary deaths caused every year from second-hand smoke, and recognises that there is absolutely no safe level of exposure.
I would be more likely to agree that there is "absolutely no safe level of exposure" to government legislation. In fact, there is now more controversy about whether the signs meet ISO/EU standards, and (of course) the whole regime will be reviewed in another three years.
It is claimed that going smokefree will be good for businesses --- I must ask why they didn't take this route voluntarily?
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
[From The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment by C. S. Lewis]