Monday
Jul232012
Car smoking ban edges a step nearer
Monday, July 23, 2012 at 17:29 I shall be on LBC tonight responding to this story:
Peers back smoking ban for cars with children present (BBC News)
I have also been told that, "The topic of smoking in cars featured on LBC earlier this morning and every caller, text, email was against the idea of a ban. A lot of reference was made to the police already having enough to do and banning smoking in cars was unenforceable".
Reader Comments (14)
Does this peer have connections with the anti tobacco industry?
He is a member of the All Party Parliamentary anti-tobacco Group. Just another purveyor of propaganda and untruths.
Has this man lost contact with his brain?
They don't know what they're talking about. I wind the window down a fraction and the venturi effect sucks the smoke out.
I don't know how all us kids survived when most of us had to endure second hand smoke cooked up in the same room where our parents smoked.
'Smokefree awareness course' sounds a hell of a lot of fun to me. Where do I sign up? :)
What scares me most is that they're even remotely considering this bilge-pump sewage about smoking in cars. Is there any empirical evidence which has been independently replicated, then put in a study which has of course been peer-reviewed before being published? There is a study isn’t there, ’er…excuse me that peer sleeping on the back row, can you hear me…there is a study isn’t there, when was it put before the Health Select Committee? Nope, he’s already gone back to sleep.
'Lord Ribeiro saw his Smoke-free Private Vehicles Bill nodded through the Lords...', yep, that sounds about right for these snooze heads – nod, nod, noddy nod nod – a typical think bubble for these rickety bone bags is – 'I wonder if smoked salmon is on the menu today?'
These people don’t challenge or ask searching questions, it’s something that you come to understand over the years about politicians of all stripes – you know that. It takes a very brave soul to stand tall and say ‘wait, can we see some evidence for this?’ Life is so much easier if you blow in the same direction as all the other tumbleweed. It feels nice and warm and comfortable, and it’s just great for that ever expanding waistline that you’ve always wanted, because the quicker you get a debate out of the way…well then, the quicker you get to your table.
Correct me if I’m wrong about this, but didn’t David Cameron say in the House just recently during PMs questions when asked about a potential law on smoking in cars, that he thought invading someone’s’ space like their own private vehicle, would be a step too far? What’s the betting he’ll do a nice little u-turn.
Do you reckon they’ll be coming into our homes next – nah! I don’t think so either; I mean that’s just plain scaremongering right? – Phew...you had me worried there for a moment! Ha, ha, ha ha hah! Aahhh!...you know I really do say the most stupid things eh?
Likewise, Dick P! What fun could be had!
@Dick P - worth getting an invite to such a course :)
@DP, Junican
Ha! Yes, my first thought when I read about the proposed 'smoke-free awareness course' was "I'd soon bloody tell 'em about smoke-free awareness."
Yes, it would be a good wheeze. If they bring in this law, I can see a lot of people deliberately getting busted for smoking in cars just to be able to have the enjoyment of playing with the poor sap entrusted to oversee the course!
"but didn’t David Cameron say in the House just recently during PMs questions when asked about a potential law on smoking in cars, that he thought invading someone’s’ space like their own private vehicle, would be a step too far?"
Yep, he said the idea made him nervous. I'm not convinced this is a runner, at all, though qualified by 'at the moment'. I think they'll find some way of keeping it out of commons business.
I watched a lords debate on smoking, once. To be fair, there were only a few of them but it was a litany of one ASH flysheet after another. It was like a 4 year old learning the Catechism. Deep and independent thinking - Not.
The mobile phone driving ban worked.
Not.
Unenforcible ,yes, but when has that stopped them before?
Remember we are dealing with MP's Lords and other troughers here who suffer from terminal stupidity, the regulations are for those outside the bubble.
Note;
You know, that Élysée Palace type of bubble.
We're also dealing with career politicians who unfortunately follow the funding rather than their people's wishes; the global health lobbies have a rather large key to the funding.
This will come into law as our current politicians are career politicians and, as such, are too weak-minded to stand up to the blatantly lying health lobbies and the lucre those lobbies attract.
I believe I too would relish the thought of questioning any 'tutor' on a smoke-free awareness course. To be honest, I'd have my questions ready and waiting to enjoy seeing them squirm.
Not something I would have relished in the past, but the weak, career-minded politicians we have had to endure over the last few terms have forced me to behave in this way.
"Lord Ribeiro, a former president of the Royal College of Surgeon.................."
For God's sake, please bring back the hereditary peers !
I've had a fuckin' gut-full of 'Democracy' and its petty tyrannies.
What - the descendants of Charles II's whores, Martin ?
Yep - ANY day, in preference to the mean little rent-boys and groupies of the modern establishment.
(Feel a lot better now)